ADeseret News and Salt Lake Telegram Salt Lake City, Utah Thursday, May 22, 1958
Let's Play Chess by Harold Lundstrom
When Should Draw Be Offered In Chess Match? By Harold Lundstrom. On whose move is the offer to draw made? And to whom? This is more than an academic question, and Larry Evans, former U.S. Open champion, points out in “Chess Life” that in the recent U.S. Championship match, the championship was indirectly handed to Bobby Fischer because of this problem.
Actually, both the FIDE and United States Chess Federation rules are silent concerning the conditions under which a player may properly offer a draw, in the absence of a claim of repetition of position.
It would seem that this is a point that should be covered by the rules revision, and that in the absence of international and national rulings, the point should be covered by pretournament ground rules.
There are only three ways of offering a draw, and no one of them is completely satisfactory.
