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Hi there in English, I'm just going to show you a fictional position just to illustrate something,

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say your plain whites and you think it's blocked off and it should be a draw.

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And the opponent for some reason is not accepting the draw.

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Now, there is actually a 50 move.

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So they just carry on and they maybe they want to work on time.

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It's a clock situation, but there's a 50 move draw rule, which basically means 50 moves, as in 100

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ply, 100 1/2 moves that if there's no pool move or capture over that span of 100 of those or 50, you

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know, full moves, then it should be a draw and you should be able to claim a draw, especially if

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you're recording the game.

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If it's an official game, you can see and prove when the last possible capture was.

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So you should be able to just claim a draw on 50 move from now, say you were playing whites and say

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they did offer the option of moving a pawn or a capture.

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Then that kind of resets it resets the fifty move kind of clock counter itself.

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So it would be like fifty moves from here that you can't make progress.

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But if you really want to be annoying for some reason or win on time, as, as long as I guess you're

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within the fifty move rule limits, then you can technically win on time, although it's not particularly

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ethical and it's good to have ethics in chess in general.

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You might want to win games, you might want to maximize your win probability, but.

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It's good to do that ethically, like in all other aspects of life.

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So if you have such a position where you're not really going to be making progress.

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Yeah, why not?

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Just a great draw.

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Go on to the next game, learn the lessons, improve for the next game.

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There's always another game, OK, by the 50 overall is there sometimes it can protect you from really,

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really annoying opponents that are just playing on and completely locked up positions or, you know,

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they might be trying to make sure you have two nights and they're taking an eternity or they might not

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know how to make you and they're taking eternity.

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Or I could be.

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Yeah, as I say, it could be some sort of fortress like this where there's no real progress be made.

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There's no poor moves that those captures for an eternity.

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The 50 move stops games dragging on and on and on.

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So it is an important role in chess.

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Frankly, it's there to make chess more exciting, to get you to go and play another game later.

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Don't just carry on the same game for an eternity, OK?

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And so much.