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The concept of not being able to agree draws, enforced in the European Championships, is being wound back. A cynic would suspect this has more to do with personality clashes inside FIDE than with the merits of the decision.
The European Continental Championship is a Swiss, a qualifier for the World Cup and thus the World Championships and is one that has outlawed early draws in past events.3. For WCC cycle events (including continentals and zonals), the “no draw offer†rule applies only for the first 30 moves, except events organized with theswiss system where no kind of “no draw offer†rule shall be applied.
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Players may only agree to a draw after the 40th move has been made by black. Players violating this rule will be forfeited. If a player is offered a draw before the 40th move has been made by black, he should call an arbiter. His opponent shall be punished for distracting, according to the FIDE Laws of Chess.
Those who lost to Feller at the Olympiad will get their rating points back.
The players who were defaulted for agreeing a threefold repetition draw in under forty moves also get their points back10. For the Feller case, WCOC is proposing the following:
a) all players who lost rating points to Feller in the Olympiad should have them given back,
11. For the Baron - Safarli game in Plovdiv 2012, the WCOC recommendsthat FIDE PB accepts the appeal of ACP on behalf of both players to be given back their rating points (5 rating points each). The three-time repetition is included in the Laws of Chess and it is not a violation.