Draws, Draws And More Draws

21 May 2010 – In today’s Chess Column in The Star, Living, SS Quah discusses the Sofia Rule being employed during the recently concluded World Chess Championship between GM Anand, the reigning world champion and GM Topalov, the challenger at Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Sofia Rule dictates that players could not draw their games by agreement. They could have technical draws through stalemate or three-fold repetition of position or the 50-move rule or through insufficient material, but that was all.

There were no less than 7 draws made during the recent World Chess Championship from the series of 12 games played.

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