zdrakec wrote:
Anders Thulin wrote:
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.

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.

The suggestion is that, if you made Karjakin and Alekseev fight in
this game, they'd be more tired later in the tournament, so be more
likely to make blunders (or that it's already late in the tournament
and they're already tired). It's not clear, of course, whether the
extra entertainment of seeing them fight in this round would
compensate for the additional tendency to blunder through tiredness
later on.


Dave.

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