Saturday, July 28, 2007

REALLY INTERESTING FACTS

  • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
  • Almonds are members of the peach family.
  • The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
  • The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
  • Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
  • The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
  • "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins andends with the letters "und."
  • There are only four words in the English language that end in "-ous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  • The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  • The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
  • The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
  • Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade LosAngeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when hewas sewn up after surgery.
  • Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
  • Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
  • The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint---no two lions have the samepattern of whiskers.
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  • There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains tenwords without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he,in,rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registeredblooddonors.
  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. {Right up there with myfirst ex-wife ...}
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
  • Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripenedcranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
  • The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
  • 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only theleft hand.
  • The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; thefollowing sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; afterfallinginto a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
  • The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letterisuncopyrightable.
  • Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,asdoes arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
  • Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australiansealfor that reason.
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have aboutten.
  • The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"which means "the king is dead."
  • The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Monday, July 23, 2007

CAN ANYONE ANSWER THESE????

  • If the sky is the limit, then what is space, over the limit?
  • Are children who act in rated 'R' movies allowed to see them?
  • Can you make a candle out of your earwax?
  • When French people swear do they say pardon my English?
  • Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?
  • If the swat team breaks down your door do they have to replace it later?
  • Can a fire truck park in the fire lane?
  • Can it be cloudy and foggy at the same time?
  • "Cute as a button" Is that supposed to be a compliment?
  • Since when are buttons cute?
  • Can you breathe out of your nose and mouth at the same time?
  • Are marbles made of marble?
  • Why does the last piece of ice always stick to the bottom of the cup?
  • If you pay for a vacation and your plane crashes on the way there, do you get you money back?
  • (Granted you lived)Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?
  • Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink what comes out"?
  • Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken over there ... I'm gonna eat the first thing that comes out if its butt"?
  • Isn't Disney World just a people trap operated by a mouse?
  • If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
  • Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?
  • Can you get cornered in a round room?
  • Why do we wash behind our ears?
  • Who really looks there?
  • Why don't the hairs on your arms get split ends?
  • If an atheist has to go to court, do they make him swear on the Bible?
  • Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but its ok to use a handicapped toilet?
  • In that song, she'll be coming around the mountain, who is she?
  • How come we say 'It's colder than hell outside' when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?
  • Why is it that if something says, "do not eat" on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?
  • Why are people so scared of mice, yet we all love Mickey Mouse?
  • Wouldn't it be smart to make the sticky stuff on envelopes taste like chocolate?
  • Why are the commercials for cable companies on cable but not on regular television?
  • Don't they want the people without cable to buy the cable?
  • "Have you ever noticed that if you rearranged the letters in mother in law, they come out to Woman Hitler?
  • "Isn't it funny how the word 'politics' is made up of the words 'poli' meaning 'many' in Latin, and 'tics' as in 'bloodsucking creatures’?
  • Why is it that when things get wet they get darker, even though water is clear??
  • Why is it that when you get out of a swimming pool, your urine is hotter when you use the restroom?
  • Can mute people burp?
  • What happens if you put this side up face down while popping microwave popcorn?
  • Why is chopsticks one of the easiest songs to play on the piano, but the hardest thing to eat with?
  • How come you play at a recital, but recite at a play?
  • If a fork were made of gold would it still be considered silverware?
  • If heat rises, then shouldn't hell be cold?
  • Why is there that little space inside strawberries, as if it was meant for a pit, and then the seeds are on the outside?
  • Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?
  • Do they have girl’s bathrooms in gay bars?
  • Why is toilet bowl cleaning liquid only blue?
  • Why is it when we talk to God we are praying, but when God talks to us we are put into the loony bin?
  • Why do you go “back and forth” to town if you really must go forth before you go back?
  • Why doos shaped macaroni taste better than the normal kind?
  • Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?
  • Why can't you get a tan on your palms?
  • If your sick for one week and on one of those days they had to cancel school because of snow, do you have to make up that day in June?
  • Why do dogs sniff other dog’s bottoms to say hello, why don’t they just bark in their face or something?
  • Why do companies offer you "free gifts?
  • " Since when has a gift NOT been free?If something "goes without saying," why do people still say it?
  • You know the expression, "Don't quit your day job?" Well what do you say to people that work nights?
  • Why do you get in trouble for blocking an exit when you're standing in the doorway?
  • In case of an emergency, wouldn't you run out, too, therefore NOT blocking the exit?
  • Why is it when some products you have to turn it upside down to read the directions, and the directions say do not turn upside down?
  • Why is a square meal served on round plates?
  • Why is the 0 on a phone after 1 and not before 1?
  • Which way does a compass point in space?
  • Why are people allowed to put naked statues outside but why can't we run outside naked?
  • Why do all superheroes wear spandex?
  • If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?
  • Why did Mary own a little lamb?
  • If a missing person sees their picture on a milk carton that offers a reward, would they get the money?
  • Why can’t a baby cry while it’s inside its mother?
  • If the president were gay, would his husband be the first man?
  • If you were a genie and a person asked you this wish, "I wish you would not grant me this wish" what would you do?
  • Why are Pringles curved?
  • What happens if your snot freezes in your nose?
  • Why aren't safety pins as safe as they say they are?
  • If overalls are held up by the snaps at the top, then why do they have belt loops?
  • Why is it that its good to score under par in golf but its bad to be “under par” in any thing else?
  • Is Jerry Garcia grateful to be dead?
  • Why do people say, "You can't have your cake and eat it too"?
  • Why would someone get cake if they can't eat it?
  • Can bald men get lice??
  • How come popcorn isn't a vegetable?
  • Do movie producers still say lights, camera, and action when it is a dark scene?
  • Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark?
  • If he did, where did he keep them?
  • Why is Charlie short for Charles if they are both the same number of letters?
  • Why is snow white and ice clear?
  • Aren't they just different forms of water?
  • Why do they put the names of football teams on baseball caps?
  • If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver's license?
  • How come you pay an extra 25 cents to get something put on your hamburger but they don't take off the price if you get something taken off?
  • Can you get cornered in a round room?
  • Why do we wash behind our ears?
  • Who really looks there?
  • Why don't the hairs on your arms get split ends?
  • If an atheist has to go to court, do they make him swear on the Bible?
  • Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but its ok to use a handicapped toilet?
  • In that song, she'll be coming around the mountain, who is she?
  • "How come we say 'It's colder than hell outside' when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?
  • "Why is it that if something says, "do not eat" on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?
  • If you were under house arrest and you lived in a mobile home, wouldn’t you be able to go anywhere you want?
  • If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?
  • What would happen if you were to feed a pig some bacon?
  • If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn’t we now be seeing people from the future?
  • Do pyromaniacs wear blazers?
  • If you don't pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed?
  • How come only car keys are the only keys with teeth on both sides?
  • Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
  • Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?

DO U KNOW ANSWER TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS.......I've MANY SUCH QUESTIONS WHICH CAN BE POSTED TO U @ YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IF U REQUEST FOR THEM

FUNNY FOOTBALL QUOTES

  • 'Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.' David Coleman
  • 'It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the scoreline on Saturday.'
  • 'West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.' John Helm
  • 'It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.' - Derek Rae
  • 'Sporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras.' - Peter Jones By Managers
  • 'The first 90 minutes are the most important.' - Bobby Robson
  • 'Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.'- Graham Taylor
  • 'It wasn't going to be our day on the night.' - Bryan Robson
  • Interviewer: 'Would it be fair to describe you as a versetile player? 'David Beckham: 'Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side.'
  • 'If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.' - Robbie Earle
  • 'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.' - Mark Viduka
  • 'We lost because we didn't win.' - Ronaldo
  • 'I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.' - Stan Collymore
  • 'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.' - Mark Draper
  • 'Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough.' - Jonathan Woodgate
  • 'I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.'- Les Ferdinand
  • 'There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between.'- Gary Lineker

Funny, or were'nt they???

SWEEPER or LIBERO SYSTEM in FOOTBALL

IT WAS THE DEFENCIVE MINDED ITALIANS OF THE 1960s WHO DEVELOPED THE IDEA OF PLAYING A sweeper or libero WHICH MEANS A FREE PLAYER ON THE PITCH ...behind the marking defenderssss.His job is to cover the whole back line and also co-operate in OFFSIDE TRAP...a tipical italian mind...IT IS AN ULTRA-DEFENCIVE TACTIC...AND GRADUALLY THE THE TEAM WHICH IS FOLLWING THE TACTIC BECOME MORE N MORE ATTACKING AS THE TIME PASSES ON...THE BEST EXAMPLE IS OF 1970s GERMAN N DUTCH TEAMS...THEY CONSIDERED IT AS THE PRIME POSITION TO BREAK FORWARD N LAUNCH ATTACKSSS...IN A VERY SHORT TIME...AS GOOD AS A COUNTER-ATTACK...ITS A HIGLY SPECIALISED ROLE...ONLY FEW PALYERS CURRENTLY CAN DO THIS...AS SAID BY HARRY REDNAPP...MICHEAL BALLACK N PAUL SCHOLES...ARE BEST AT DOIN THIS...OTHER TEAM WHO GOT SUCCESS WAS AJAX AMSTERDAM...WHO WON UCL USIN THE SWEEPER SYSTEM WITH 1-3-3-3 FORMATION...THE MAIN ADVANTAGE OF THIS SYSTEM IS IF U USE SWEEPER SYSTEM N ENGAGE IT ON A SINGLE PLAYER...THEN U DO NOT NEED DIFFERENT PLAYERS TO COVER/OR DROP DEEP TO ACT AS COVER...IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS...U JUST NEED A SINGLE PLAYER...TO OUT SCORE THE OTHERSSSS...
Courtesy : book mentioned below
SOCCER SKILLS AND TACTICS BY HAARY REDKNAPP

Whose Vince Mcmohan????

i guess half of you dont know who Mr. Vince Mcmahon is..!!! Well...il let u know..!Vince McMahon is the producer of a movie called WWE which comes up with a new sequel every single week..!! The star cast of this movie includes highly trained and well groomed actors who play the role of wrestlers in the movie...!! And yeah....i pity on these actors...coz..inspite of performing so naturally, inspite of enduring the severe injuries and fractures....dude's rnt even nominated for d Oscars..!!!(No wonder y they say 'Never try this at home..!!)

Newaz...continuing with the topic...The moment i heard the whole thing from my cousin dat Vince Macmohan had died (recent hot news)....i was stunned for a while...but the very second moment....i realized..... its the world of WWE that we are talking about..!!!Instantly, I logged on to net and searched google to find out what the whole matter was...!!What i found out was what i was expecting to find out...!!THEY HAD FAKED THE WHOLE THING...!!!!You wonder why? Dont you ?well...before i let you know why they do it...let me write down some more of their FAKE ACTS- Khali...the guy from India...........its simply impossible to knock down that guy...i mean.....see the sizes...he can suffocate the lil guy (like REY MEYSTERIO) by just placing his hand on his face...
But in the show.....u can see people half his size knock him out.....!!!- The dudes who behave like 'Jaani -Dusshman' in the show.......sit side by side in outside seminars....lolling and rofling together in sync......(now thats Radical)- Old guys like Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair man handling(literally) wrestlers far stronger then them.....- M not sure about this fact but i guess even the whole crowd is fake....they are paid to sit their and watch the well rehearsed drama...!!So.....why do they do all this?Coz...WWE is a worldwide phenomenon and children all across the world follow it. Its a platform where they see their favorite stars battle out to gain supremancy in their domain. they admire their physiques and looks.....nd wish to be like them one day...!!But....they r kids....u cant help it...!!I wonder at times how someone can feel successful by running a show which fakes almost everthing just to win the hearts of innocent lil kids..!!!
most part of dis content taken frm my frnd's blog http://www.rajatjaswal.blogspot.com/ n ya, below wikipedia link is provided by me only...........

Felt really glad to have enlightened one soul....

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Chess-my passion-post for beginners

THE OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object in chess is to checkmate your opponent's King. Checkmate, or just "mate" occurs when a king is attacked and the king cannot escape capture on the next move.
Chess is played on a board with 64 squares set up in the following way:
The Rooks begin the game in the corners. The Knights (many beginning players call them horses) are next to the Rooks. The Bishops start next to the Knights. And then the King and the queen.

Note that white and black Queens both begin the game on squares of their color. The white Queen begins on a white square. The black Queen begins on a black square.
And, at the beginning of the game, always start with a white square in the lower right corner of the chessboard.
TO BEGIN THE GAME, white moves first, and then black... taking turns until CHECKMATE, or one player RESIGNS, or both players agree to a draw
HOW DOES THE KING MOVE AND CAPTURE????
The king can move one square in any direction. The king can also capture an opponent's piece if it is on one of those squares... assuming of course that the opponent is not defending this piece! The king can NEVER move on to a square that the opponent controls. Doing so would move the king into check.
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The first example illustrates how the king moves. It can move to any square marked with an "X"
In the second diagram, the king can move to any of the marked squares or capture the black rook because the rook is one square away and is undefended. But the king may not move to one of the squares controlled by the black rook even though the rook is undefended.
In the third diagram, the black rooks defend each other. The white king has only one legal move because the king cannot move to a square controlled by the enemy rooks.
Finally, it is important to add that if the king is under attack (in check), the next move MUST make sure that the attack has been stopped. There are three possibilities. The king must move out of check. Or... the attacking piece must be captured. Or... a piece must be moved between the attacker and the king in order to eliminate the direct attack. If the king is under attack AND there is no immediate way to end the attack, the game is over. CHECKMATE!
Castling
The king is permitted to take part in a very special move, the only chess move that actually involves two pieces at the same time! In the following diagram, the white king can castle on either side of the board. To castle, move the king two squares toward the rook, and then move the rook to the square immediately on the other side of the king.

For castling to be legal, make sure
(1) that your king and rook have never moved.
(2) that your king is not under attack. You may not castle out of check.
(3) that your king is not passing through or arriving upon a square controlled by the opponent.
(4) that all of the squares between the king and rook are vacant.
You may castle if your rook is under attack. You may even castle if your rook passes through a square controlled by your opponent.
Here's where the king and rook end up after castling on each side of the board.
HOW DOES THE ROOK MOVE AND CAPTURE????
The rook can move any number of squares in straight line, horizontally or vertically, but the rook may not jump a piece of either color.
HOW DOES THE BISHOP MOVE AND CAPTURE???
The bishop can move any number of squares diagonally, but like the rook, it may not jump a white or black piece. Like the rook, it can move forward or backward, but in only one direction at a time. At the beginning of the game, each side has a "white-squared" and "dark-squared" bishop. Because they move diagonally, the bishops will always remain on a square of the same color on which they started the game.
HOW DOES THE QUEEN MOVE AND CAPTURE???
The queen combines the powers of both the rook and the bishop. As such, it can move horizontally, vertically, or on the diagonal. In a sense, it's like the king in that it can move in any direction. Unlike the king, however, it can move far in one direction so long as there are no pieces in its path.
HOW DOES THE KNIGHT MOVE AND CAPTURE???
The Knight is the only piece that can jump over other pieces! The knight always moves like the letter "L" Keep in mind, though, that the letter can be sideways or even upside-down and backwards!
HOW DOES THE PAWN MOVE AND CAPTURE???
The Pawn is the only piece that moves differently from how it captures. The pawn, like the foot-soldier in war, marches forward one square at a time. Unlike the other pieces, the pawn can NEVER retreat. Pawn that have not yet moves have the option of beginning their forward journey with a double move two-squares forward. The pawns may not jump other pieces or pawns.
The pawn captures differently from how it moves. The pawn captures diagonally ONLY one square ahead, as if it were fighting on its side with a short sword.
CAPTURING 'EN PASSANT'
The pawn is also able to capture in a most unusual way. This is one of the trickiest moves to learn and the single move that causes consternation among beginners. A small bit of history helps to introduce and to understand the en passant (French for "while passing") capture. During the early days of chess, pawns could only move a single square at a time. Several changes were introduced in Europe to speed up the game. One of these changes permitted pawns to move two squares if they had not yet moved.
But this rule change introduced an unfortunate situation. A pawn could now move all the way down the board to become a queen without the opponent's pawn ever having a chance to capture it. In the following diagram, it is white's move. When the White pawn moves forward two squares in a single move, the Black pawn on the neighboring file wants to be able to capture the pawn before the white pawn can advance further. The en passant rule applies here. For one move, AND ONE MOVE ONLY, the black pawn can respond by capturing the White pawn as if it had only moved a single square. To effect the capture, move the black pawn forward diagonally and remove the white pawn.
THE RELATIVE VALUE OF PIECES
The following table provides the approximate value of the chess pieces. We assign a value of 1 point to the basic unit, the pawn. Of course, the king is not included in the table because, in a real sense, it has infinite value.
Use the values in this table as a rough guide. By that, I mean that a rook is roughly worth as much as a knight and two pawns. A queen is worth approximately as much as a rook, knight, and pawn. Two rook rooks are roughly equivilent to a queen plus a pawn. Of course, in most situations, there are many other factors to consider, especially the relative activity of the pieces.

QUEEN-9 points

ROOK-5 points

BISHOP-3+ points

KNIGHT-3 points

PAWN- 1 point

You will also note that the bishop receives a value slightly greater than the knight. The bishop is usually, though not always worth a bit more than a knight. See the special section basic bishop strategy for more information on why this might be so.
Note also that there are many moments when it will be to your advantage to give up or "sacrifice" some material in inorder to gain other advantages. By giving up a pawn, you might gain an important square for your knight or an open file for a rook. By giving up a rook or queen, you might be able to force checkmate. You should therefore use this table of values only as a rough guide and not as the sole consideration in your play.
KEEPING SCORE
I recommend that all new players learn to keep score using what is called "algebraic" notation. In the diagram that follows, you will notice that the board includes the numbers 1-8 along the left edge and the letters "a" - "h" along the bottom the board. We can use the combination of one letter and one number to describe each square on the board.

For example, the white king begins the game on e1. The black rooks begin the game on a8 and h8. If I begin the game by pushing the pawn in front of the white king two squares, we can describe this move as e2-e4, or simply e4. Moving the knight on g1 to f3 would be written g1-f3, or more simply as Nf3.
An "x" is used to show that a capture has taken place. For example, Nxe4 means that the knight moves and captures whatever was on e4. You don't necessarily need to include "check" in your scoresheet, but you can easily with "ch" or just "+". For mate, many players use "#". Now who could resist that!
HOW MOST GAMES REALLY END???
Checkmate rarely happens
Not every game ends with a checkmate. Many masters, before they are "mated," choose instead to resign. They believe that there is no longer any hope, so they award the win to their opponent. In tournaments, wins receive one point, recorded 1-0 when white wins and 0-1 when black wins. Many beginners are confused by such resignations. "Why did he resign here?" I often hear from my students. Figuring out the reason can be very instructive. And sometimes, master mistakenly resign when they were not losing. That is quite rare, but it's fun to see and talk about!
DRAWS
Between evenly matched opponents, chess games will often end in draws. So what's a draw? That's when nobody wins. In tournaments, draws are recorded as ½ - ½, essentially half a point rather than the full point for a win. There are six kinds of draws to discuss briefly.
(1) Draws by agreement
This kind of draw is the most common. At any time in the game, you can offer a draw to your opponent. Be mindful of good etiquette, however. Don't offer a draw on every move! That's just flat-out rude. And be sure to offer the draw correctly. Make your move, offer the draw ("I offer a draw" is fine) and only then press your clock (assuming that you are using a chess clock). An offer of a draw without making a move is NOT a legal offer and can be ignored.
Here's a famous grandmaster draw, a game drawn quickly. This game was famous because Tal already had 12 points in their 1960 world championship match. This draw resulted in the crowning of a new world chess champion! Tal had steered the game into a position in which Black has no meaningful chances to win, and Tal also had a large lead in the match.
(2) Stalemates!
In chess, each side must move. If the player who must move has no legal move (and is NOT in check), the game ends as a draw, a STALEMATE. Some stalemates are quite common. Here's an example of a king and pawn endgame that ends as a stalemate. At the end of the game, the Black king has no moves and is NOT in check.
Many examples are much more complicated and can be quite exciting.
(3) Perpetual check
Draws by perpetual check occur when one player, usually though not always with a queen, can deliver check regardless of the square chosen by the opponent's king. There's simply no escape from the checks.
(4) Threefold repetition
You or your opponent can claim a draw if the same position occurs three times in the same game, all with the same player to move. Such repetitions can easily occur in endgames when one player is checking another. To claim such a draw, you need to have an accurate scoresheet and demonstrate to the tournament director that the claim is valid. In one game between Fischer and Spassky, Fischer incorrectly claimed such a draw but Spassky, sure that Fischer must have been correct, agreed to the draw!
(5) Insufficient mating material
If neither side has sufficient material to win, either player can claim a draw. For example, suppose that each side has a king and a bishop. Try as you will, there's no way to FORCE a win. You can win force checkmate with a king plus a bishop and a knight (though some masters have trouble doing that!), but there is no way to FORCE checkmate with a king and two knights.
(6) The 50 move rule
This last rule is merciful. If after 50 consecutive moves by both players, no pawn move or capture has occurred, either player can claim a draw. Obviously, you will need to have kept an accurate score sheet to make this claim!
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