A draw is a game with no winner. In tournaments, a draw usually gives each player half a point.
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Ways a game is drawn
- Agreement between both players.
- Stalemate: the player to move is not in check but has no legal move.
- Threefold repetition: the same position occurs three times with the same player to move.
- The 50-move rule: 50 moves in a row by each side with no pawn move and no capture.
- Insufficient material to checkmate, such as king versus king, or king and bishop versus king.
