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"RPM1" wrote:


"PJDBAD" wrote ...
Many posters have pointed out regarding "grandmaster" draws being a
disapointment to fans who expect to see fighting chess. It has also been
pointed out that it is tournament results not individual game results that
count. Many a general has lost battles and still won the campaign.


In my opinion draws are part of chess. BUT when two players
both play with the intent to draw and shake hands after a dozen
moves it does look bad.

I know there have been many suggestions concerning this issue.
I favor a win being worth 1 point and anything else is 0. That
way a player with 2 wins and 2 losses is ahead of the player with
4 draws.



As has been pointed out many times, this would simply encourage any game
that is "drawn" to be decided by a coin flip. That is, if you and I are
going to draw and get 0 points each, we somehow randomly decide who will
play to lose so one of us gets a point (and on average we each expect to
get 1/2 point per "drawn" game in the long run).

Of course, they won't just pull out a coin and flip it. They're sneakier
than that, but they'd find a way.

--Harold Buck


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and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
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