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"RPM1" wrote:

Does it make sense for 2 draws to equal a win?

Yes, because it makes chess a zero-sum game. There's one point available
for the game. Either you get it, or I do, or we "tie" and split it.

If players were not
rewarded for draws then they would avoid them. If we're talking
about "fans", I think tournaments and matches would be more exciting
for spectators. You would still have the exciting draws where a player
pulls a draw out of a lost position because the player would not want
the opponent to get the point. But I believe the "Grandmaster draws"
would be less likely, (I'm not buying the "you win this one and I'll win
the next one" argument).

Grandmasters are not stupid. If faced with a draw and the prospect of
neither one getting a point, they'll opt for a chance at a point instead
of the certainty of no points, for the same reason they now agree to
draws before the game: they want the best chance of winning the most
money.

--Harold Buck


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