On Sep 22, 11:33 am, "David Kane" wrote:

The way you have described it, doubling would be rare and redoubling
extremely rare. At high level chess, games rarely swing from one side
having an overwhelming advantage to the other side having an overwhelming
advantage.

It's true that devaluing draws relative to wins would likely reduce draws.
Various alternative scoring methods have been proposed for just that
purpose. But that really doesn't have anything to do with the doubling
cube.

Part of the idea for the doubling cube is to resolve the draw issue.
A larger framework issue for the question is one about how do you make
chess more appealing for people to watch over television, so that the
game would grow in popularity. There is currently, I believe, a chess
match that is going for $1.5 million in prize money to the winner.
These stakes should draw more media attention than it is. Are the
games being televised?

You could end up saying, "Run speedchess or Bughouse" as possible
answers, but is this what people want?

Ok, I will start another thread with this more general question. It
is, why should poker get such TV coverage and chess not?

- Rich