Fischer-Spassky Game #17 -- Threefold Repetition?

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Fischer-Spassky Game #17 -- Threefold Repetition?

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I was looking for some "threefold repetition" games to test a homebrew PGN tool, and remembered that the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match included several such draws. Sure enough, Game #17 is annotated as a threefold repetition draw on Wikipedia (and several other sites) but my tool failed to find it. Looking at the game, I don't see a threefold repetition either. Am I missing something here, or is Wikipedia misinformed?



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Re: Fischer-Spassky Game #17 -- Threefold Repetition?

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This is just FIDE rules. You have to claim the draw before making the move that will produce a 3-rep. So Fischer claimed that Re1 would give a 3-rep (after moves 41, 43, 45). But the move is not made on the board. I have no idea how anyone came up with this rule, or its rationale, but it's what it is.
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