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In article <31157782.3246600@news.telepac.pt>, dehumanizer@telepac.pt
(Pedro Timoteo) writes:

>>Once you've taken all of the oposing player's pieces but the king, how 
>>many moves do they have until it is a stale mate?
>
>I believe there's no rule which applies specifically to one side only
>having the king. What exists is a rule that says that it's a draw if 50
>moves (for each side) go without a) any piece being taken and b) any pawn
>advancing. In other words, everytime a piece is taken *OR* a pawn
advances,
>you start counting from 0 (to 50) again.
>
>Other people, please correct me if I'm wrong...
>
You have correctly stated the general rule, which for all intents and
purposes means that there must be an irreversible change in the position
within 50 moves or the game ends. (The likelihood of one player losing the
right to castle within such a 50 move window being too remote to
consider.) In response to computer endgame analyses certain exceptions
have been adopted by the World Chess Federation in recent years to cover
various positions where a forced win exists, but not within the
constraints of the 50 move rule. I don't know whether or in what
circumstances these exceptions have been adopted by the U.S.C.F. for
non-international events, or for that matter whether Kasparov's rival
federation follows the W.C.F. rules.