Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:29:43 03/03/05
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On March 02, 2005 at 12:19:13, Terry Giles wrote: > >Hi CCC friends, > >After playing through some of the very short "grandmaster" draws at Linares, I >feel that it's about time some of these tournament organisers started to award 3 >points for a won game in an effort to get the players to try and win a game >instead of fearing a loss. Chess today, well at least at the stratospheric >heights of the "super-grandmasters", is far too technical and theory laden for >most of the 'general' public to really appreciate and most of it has already >been prepared and analysed at home. Something needs to be done to liven up the >game, before the machines take over! > >Terry ;-) Taking the score sheet of Paderborn as example: Purely on points, Gandalf and Spike would have switched places and Nexus would have finished 2 places higher. I think the difference is too small for people to stop playing draws. Tony Cross-table: # Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 P 3P SB 1 Hydra X 1 = 1 1 1 . 1 = . 1 . . 1 . . 8.0 23 2 Shredder 0 X 1 1 . . = 1 . 1 1 1 . . 1 . 7.5 22 3 Gandalf = 0 X 0 1 . . = 1 1 = . 1 . . . 5.5 15 4 Spike 0 0 1 X 0 = . . . 1 . . 1 1 . 1 5.5 16 5 Ikarus 0 . 0 1 X = = . = 1 . . . = . 1 5.0 13 6 The Baron 0 . . = = X . = 0 . 1 = . 1 . 1 5.0 13 7 Diep . = . . = . X = 0 = 0 . . 1 1 1 5.0 13 8 Anaconda 0 0 = . . = = X . 0 . 1 1 . 1 . 4.5 12 9 Jonny = . 0 . = 1 1 . X 0 = 1 . . 0 . 4.5 12 10 Nexus . 0 0 0 0 . = 1 1 X . . 1 . 1 . 4.5 13 11 SOS 0 0 = . . 0 1 . = . X 1 = . . 1 4.5 12 12 Patzer . 0 . . . = . 0 0 . 0 X = 1 = = 3.0 7 13 Neurologic . . 0 0 . . . 0 . 0 = = X = 1 = 3.0 7 14 IsiChess 0 . . 0 = 0 0 . . . . 0 = X = 1 2.5 6 15 Quark . 0 . . . . 0 0 1 0 . = 0 = X = 2.5 6 16 Matador . . . 0 0 0 0 . . . 0 = = 0 = X 1.5 3
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