"Chess One" wrote in message
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People complain about draws in top level tournaments actually the only
time draws bother people is when they come at the end of a tournament.
Every sporting event should end with an exciting climax and that
requires win and losses not draws. Sure, there are exciting draws but
they happen very rarely in over the board play. You can't blame
chess professionals for the draws because they have to put their
financial interests ahead of playing exciting chess if they are to
survive as professionals.

The answer is to pay for wins in the last two games of a tournament. Of
course, everyone would have to get both colors in the last two games.
The seeding of the tournament should have the best players playing each
other at the end. (They shouldn't play the same person twice in the
last two games but that couldn't happen anyway.)

Nobody likes my idea of awarding 1.5 points for a win and 1 point for a
draw

And they shouldn't! Since it makes no sense at all - but if I had written
2.5 pts for a win, and 1 point for a draw... PI

and zero points for losing. This would shake up pre-arranged draws by
offering cheaters less points than they could have scored otherwise, and
also award players going for a win.

Its not as if there is any strict mathematical relationship in the present
system, with 0.5 point for draw being half-as-good as 1 point for a win.
This system is as seemingly arbitrary as any other, and does not effect
ratings, only event management practice.

If anyone really wanted to eliminate short-draws, or not reward them as if
it were a hard fought and contested game, they would change the basis so
that winning rewarded the winner with more than double the score for a
draw.

Much GM chess these days rewards the drawish player who scores 10 draws
from a tournament in the same way as someone who scores 5 wins. If we are
happy with drawish chess we will continue the way we are.

Phil Innes

If a player knows that, they will get (pick an amount) $10,000 for a
win they are probably going to go for it especially if they have white.
Their opponent may play for a draw but they may be too cautiously and
lose or if their opponent makes and mistake then they will most likely
turn the tables and go for winning the $10000 themselves. Neither
player will just give up because they have at least rating points to
lose but people who run tournaments will have to be on guard against
collusion.