Editing Chess (section)

====Draw====
There are several ways a game can end in a [[Draw (chess)|draw]]:
* ''[[Stalemate]]:'' If the player to move has no legal move, but is not in check, the position is a stalemate, and the game is drawn.
* ''[[Rules of chess#Dead position|Dead position]]:'' If neither player is able to checkmate the other by any legal sequence of moves, the game is drawn. For example, if only the kings are on the board, all other pieces having been captured, checkmate is impossible, and the game is drawn by this rule. On the other hand, if both players still have a knight, there is a highly unlikely yet theoretical possibility of checkmate, so this rule does not apply. The dead position rule supersedes an older rule which referred to "insufficient material", extending it to include other positions where checkmate is impossible, such as blocked [[Chess endgame#King and pawn endings|pawn endings]] where the pawns cannot be attacked.
* ''[[Draw by agreement]]:'' In tournament chess, draws are most commonly reached by mutual agreement between the players. The correct procedure is to verbally offer the draw, make a move, then start the opponent's clock. Traditionally, players have been allowed to agree to a draw at any point in the game, occasionally even without playing a move. More recently efforts have been made to discourage early draws, for example by forbidding draw offers before a certain number of moves have been completed, or even forbidding draw offers altogether.
* ''[[Threefold repetition]]:'' This most commonly occurs when neither side is able to avoid repeating moves without incurring a disadvantage. The three occurrences of the position need not occur on consecutive moves for a claim to be valid. The addition of the [[fivefold repetition|fivefold repetition rule]] in 2014 requires the arbiter to intervene immediately and declare the game a draw after five occurrences of the same position, consecutive or otherwise, without requiring a claim by either player. FIDE rules make no mention of [[perpetual check]]; this is merely a specific type of draw by threefold repetition.
* ''[[Fifty-move rule]]:'' If during the previous 50 moves no pawn has been moved and no capture has been made, either player can claim a draw. The addition of the [[seventy-five-move rule]] in 2014 requires the arbiter to intervene and immediately declare the game drawn after 75 moves without a pawn move or capture, without requiring a claim by either player. There are several known endgames where it is possible to force a mate but it requires more than 50 moves before a pawn move or capture is made; examples include some endgames with [[two knights endgame|two knights against a pawn]] and some [[pawnless chess endgame|pawnless endgames]] such as queen against two bishops. Historically, FIDE has sometimes revised the fifty-move rule to make exceptions for these endgames, but these have since been repealed. Some [[correspondence chess]] organizations do not enforce the fifty-move rule.{{refn|The fifty-move rule is not applied at FICGS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html#chess |title=50 moves rules |access-date=1 December 2009 |publisher=FICGS |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209034210/http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html#chess |archive-date=9 February 2010}}</ref>|group=note}}
* ''Draw on time:'' In games with a [[time control]], the game is drawn if a player is out of time and no sequence of legal moves would allow the opponent to checkmate the player.<ref name="FideLawsOfChess"/>
* ''Draw by resignation:'' Under FIDE Laws, a game is drawn if a player resigns and no sequence of legal moves would allow the opponent to checkmate that player.<ref name="FideLawsOfChess" />

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|Black (to move) is not in check and has no legal move. The result is [[stalemate]].
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|A dead position; White's king and bishop are insufficient to deliver [[checkmate]].
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|Also a dead position; neither king can capture the other's pawns in order to promote a pawn and give checkmate.
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