"Harold Buck" wrote ...
"RPM1" wrote:
"PJDBAD" wrote ...

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).

I highly doubt that player A will agree to take a dive with the
understanding
that someone else will allow player A to win later.

So if you and I are in a tournament and we have a drawn position and I tell
you to resign and I'll lose next time we play, you would tip your king
over?!
I'm up for that!

Patrick