Draws

Occasionally chess games do not end with a winner, but with a draw. There are 5 reasons why a chess game may end in a draw: The position reaches a stalemate where it is one players turn to move, but his king is NOT in check and yet he does not have another legal move The players may simply agree to a draw and stop playing There are not enough pieces on the board to force a checkmate. A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times Fifty consecutive moves have been played where neither player has moved a pawn or captured a piece.