Chess game - option for draw results

[Tix Mascot]

Hi!

First: Thanks a bunch for an excellent plugin that is greatly appreciated by more than half a dozen of our members!

But we would like to know if it's possible to amend it with a function that handles a draw result. Nobody has yet experienced a stalemate situation so we don't know what will happen then, but we sometimes just move our pieces aimlessly around with neither one having a winning chance until we agree that the one in the least favourable situation should forfeit the game.

So my question is: Would it be possible to upgrade the Chess Game Plugin with a pair of buttons where one player offers the other a draw result and the opponent has the option to accept?

Also, to end the game automatically with a draw result when one of the following conditions are met:
-Stalemate (when the player to move is not in check, but has no legal move)
-Threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move)
-The fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move)
-When no sequence of legal moves can lead to checkmate, most commonly when neither player has sufficient material to checkmate the opponent

I have also noticed that there is no position for a possible draw result on each player's scoreboard - just scores for how many games thay have won and lost.

Thanks in advance!
Heretix

[freeb]

You have chess game on your forum? How did you get it? The plug-in I have doesn't work.

[Tix Mascot]

Strange, I installed it from the Plugin LIbrary years ago and it has worked well since. If you still have it, please delete the current version (+ all its components) and try again! Good luck!

[Wormopolis]

Mar 9, 2020 10:24:25 GMT -8 Tix Mascot said:

Hi!

First: Thanks a bunch for an excellent plugin that is greatly appreciated by more than half a dozen of our members!

But we would like to know if it's possible to amend it with a function that handles a draw result. Nobody has yet experienced a stalemate situation so we don't know what will happen then, but we sometimes just move our pieces aimlessly around with neither one having a winning chance until we agree that the one in the least favourable situation should forfeit the game.

So my question is: Would it be possible to upgrade the Chess Game Plugin with a pair of buttons where one player offers the other a draw result and the opponent has the option to accept?

Also, to end the game automatically with a draw result when one of the following conditions are met:
-Stalemate (when the player to move is not in check, but has no legal move)
-Threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move)
-The fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move)
-When no sequence of legal moves can lead to checkmate, most commonly when neither player has sufficient material to checkmate the opponent

I have also noticed that there is no position for a possible draw result on each player's scoreboard - just scores for how many games thay have won and lost.

Thanks in advance!
Heretix

Im fairly sure I wrote in a stalemate condition in there but I dont remember if it counts that as a loss.  there are no rules for repetiton or 50-move but I do know it sometimes will bug out if it stores too many moves.

a forfeit button I thought was in there but it counts as a loss.  What if when someone chooses to forfeit it then asks if they want to request a draw?  I wont make any promises but I will see if that is possible.

the scoreboards never had any spot for draws because I never really considered it was a thing.

[Tix Mascot]

Thanks, Wormopolis! It's not really that important, but we'd appreciate it if you could come up with something in case it's not too much work!

Happy Easter to you and your family from many happy chess players!

Cheers Heretix