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Random Chess Moves in JavaScript (creative-co.de)
20 points by jah 4312 days ago
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Looks like he's counting plies rather than moves, and the spike at the 80th ply is caused by the 40-move time control

http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=39&view=category

I'm interested to know whether the "draw if 3 repeated moves" was applied. (Technically in the rules the draw is offered to the other player I believe? But it is almost always taken if it got to that point.)

If not this could lead to some very long games observed.

50 moves without capture or pawn move result in a draw, too.