5 Secret Chess Rules

Here's five chess rules you didn't know.

In chess, you can win and lose, but you can also draw.

The most common type is like this.

You offer a draw, the opponent accepts.

But did you know there's five other ways you can tie in chess?

Number one is perpetual check.

Your king is stuck in a vortex and anywhere he moves, it's a series of endless checks.

The game is a draw.

Number two is threefold repetition.

You repeat the exact same position three times.

This can happen in a row or just in the same game.

Number three, the 50 move rule.

No pawns advance and no pieces get captured for 50 turns.

Nobody can make progress, so the game is a draw.

Number four, insufficient checkmating material.

There is not enough material on the board to force a checkmate.

And number five, your favorite stalemate.