On Dec 7, 9:27 am, David Richerby
wrote:
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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Oh, I understood Anders' point entirely. I just don't agree with the
notion that keeping an eye on one's performance in the tournament as a
whole justifies a lack of effort at any particular stage of that
tournament. Of course, Anders is not saying that it does; just that it
makes good sense on the part of the player, which is certainly true.
I'd like to see that sort of thing go away, is all.
Of course, I understand that FIDE will not have me editing the Laws of
Chess anytime soon...
Regards,
zdrakec