On Dec 7, 8:33 am, Anders Thulin
wrote:
zdrakec wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I also see no problem with draws per se, I
simply think that allowing one to be agreed is arbitrary and
artificial. I guess what I mean is that the draw should be the logical
outcome of the play, not the outcome of the players' possible
unwillingness to risk a decision.

If it was a case of a single game, I think you are right. But
in a tournament, there are many games, one after another, more or less.
And a player soon gets to understand that there are two 'games':
one to play the single game, and the other to last through the tournament.

In that second context, the agreed draw make reasonably good sense.

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Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/

Hiya Anders, thanks for your thoughts. I can only reply with something
I read over on ChessBase today:
"Karjakin-Alekseev made an uneventful draw: the players stopped
playing in a position when the battle just started to begin."
That's just the sort of thing I'd like to see go away.

Best regards,
zdrakec