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This rule is very rarely enforced since claiming a draw by 3-fold repetition in tournament setting is rather cumbersome, so most people agree on a draw once they start repeating (notice that this is b…

You actually don't need to record a game in most common cases for easy identification of these rules. 50 move rule is usually in "hard" pure piece mate endings (2B against lone king, 1B and 1N against…

"Don't drink so often" was probably worth few hundred points. Drunk or hungover you cannot play as well as you can.

50 move rule and 3 repetitions are also in fide ruleset. ICCF (like fide is to otb chess, iccf is to correspondence) has 3 repetitions rule, but in position with 7 or less pieces there is no 50 move r…

For some reason I prefer a bit more rational, classical systems with white (easier to keep at least some small advantage) and wilder with black (easier for white player to mess up). I also like having…

Don't be so pessimistic :) I created this account (1.7.2017) when I began playing chess. If I could do it, you can do it too. When I was at your level John Bartholomew's Climbing the rating ladder ser…

@inmaniac Due to long time controls (old standard is 50days with 50days increment per 10 moves, "new standard" is 50days + 5days/move without increment after 50th move) it's possible to manage quite s…

@inmaniac If one justs let her engine run to some depth (let's say 40) and then copies it's first move, well she is going to at least lose more games than draw, at least with black pieces (first move …

I started playing on ICCF around a year ago. I will receive my first rating on autumn rating list, it will be a bit higher than 2300. I think that engines add a very interesting dynamic to play, espec…

@onlyplaytired I hope you are joking. Inspect element only changes things on local version of website downloaded to your browser - it has no impact on the game on sever.