Results and claims

The formal record of how a game ended for each player.

A final result in which one player wins the game and the other receives a loss.

A final result in which one player loses the game and the opponent receives the win.

The scoring unit awarded to a player for the result of one game.

Resignation is a voluntary declaration that a player will not continue, normally ending the game in an immediate loss.

A game that started but whose final result is not yet known or available.

A scheduled or recorded pairing in which the two players did not contest valid moves against each other.

A final result in which the game ends without either player winning.

A draw offer proposes ending the game without a winner and has that effect only if the opponent accepts.

The game ends as a draw when one player offers that result and the other accepts.

A draw that arises when a rules condition is met without either player having to claim it.

A draw that ends the game only after a correct claim by the player having the move.

A drawn position where the player to move is not in check but has no legal move.

A position in which neither player can deliver checkmate through any possible sequence of legal moves.

A common term for pieces that cannot produce checkmate, judged by legal mating possibility rather than material value alone.

The pieces and position circumstances that allow some checkmate to be reached through legal moves.

A rules-based identity between positions with the same pieces, side to move, and possible moves.

Threefold repetition allows a draw claim when the same position appears for the third time with the same legal possibilities.

The game is automatically drawn when the same position appears at least five times, with no claim required.

A player may claim a draw after 50 moves by each side without a pawn move or a capture.

The game is automatically drawn after 75 moves by each player without a pawn move or capture, unless the last move checkmates.

A player's absence from a round in which an opponent had been assigned, especially when the player misses the permitted arrival deadline.

The maximum permitted delay after a round starts before a player normally loses for failing to appear.

A forfeit is a game loss imposed for absence, a rule violation, or failure to meet a competition condition.

A result awarded because the opponent loses under tournament rules rather than through the normal outcome of a played game.

A loss imposed by a competition rule or arbiter's ruling even when the board position was not lost.

A win awarded without starting the game because the assigned opponent does not appear or cannot play.

An exceptional result in which both players receive a loss because of an infringement or administrative ruling.

A rules-based request by which a player invokes a right that the arbiter must verify.

A formal request for the arbiter to declare a draw because a rule-based condition has been met.

The exact move formally declared before play to support certain draw claims under the rules.

An optional US Chess procedure for claiming a draw in certain time scrambles with very little practical chance of losing.

A specialized ICCF request to set the result of an ending exactly resolved by a database covering up to seven pieces.