Rules of Chess

Overview
Chessboard
Chess Pieces
Pawn moves
En passant
Pawn promotion
Bishop moves
Knight moves
Rook moves
Queen moves
King moves
  Castling
Drawn games
  Stalemate
  50 move rule
  Insufficient material
  Perpetual check
  Threefold repetition
  Mutual agreement
Tournament rules
  Chess clocks
  Touch move
  Recording chess moves
  Chess etiquette

How a chess game ends in a draw

There are several ways in which a chess game can end up in a draw, or tie. These include the following:

Draw by stalemate

Draw by insufficient material

Draw by 3-fold repetition of position

Draw by perpetual check

Draw by 50 move rule

Draw by mutual agreement

In tournament play, when a game in drawn, each player is awarded half a point.