fifty-move rule

English

Alternative forms

  • 50-move rule

Proper noun

fifty-move rule

  1. (chess) A rule in professional chess that a player may declare the game to be a draw after 50 consecutive moves by each side without any capture or pawn movement, usually invoked during an inconclusive endgame.

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