Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Larry Smith wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2005 01:42 AM UTC:This would be a great question to ask the FIDE: Why is checkmate the only win condition in Chess and all else are draws? I'm sure that there was a great debate about this during the adoption of the Mad Queen variant as their advocated game. So there ought be a large amount of data to back up these decisions. (Or the decision could have been a form of simplication, one win condition only and all else resulting in un-decided games.) Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Win or Draw? does not match any item.