Ethical considerations may make a draw uncustomary in situations where at least one player has a reasonable chance of winning. Unless specific tournament rules forbid it, players may agree to a draw at any time.

Under the standard FIDE rules, a draw also occurs 'in dead position', when no sequence of legal moves can lead to checkmate, most commonly when neither player has sufficient material to checkmate the opponent.

Usually, in tournaments a draw is worth a half point to each player, while a win is worth one point to the victor and none to the loser.ĭraws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate (when the player to move is not in check but has no legal move), threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move), and the fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move). In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.

A king and one bishop versus a king cannot create a checkmate on either player.

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