Question about chess

Question

What happens in a game of chess when both sides continue to move the same pieces back and forth in the same positions? Is it the responsibility of the person who started this pattern to make a different move?

Please list where you got your information from

Answer 1

No, nobody HAS to make a different move.

If an identical position has occurred three times, or will occur after the player on turn makes his move, the player on move may claim a draw.

In such a case the draw is not automatic - a player must claim it.

Does that make sense to you?

Answer 2

Big Ed nailed it.

Answer 3

repeatial draw

after three moves of the same ones by both players its a draw  

Answer 4

It's nobody's responsibility to move differently, whoever moves differently moves differently.

Answer 5

Big Ed is correct.

Here's a link that specifically deals with the three-fold-repetition of position (as opposed to other types of draws).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_r...

Answer 6

a repeat of the same position three times is a draw, rules of chess