Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:26:44 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 00:29:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 17, 2003 at 00:15:32, Jeff White wrote: > >>In my database I deleted all games of 9 moves or less. I am thinking about >>deleting all games of 14 moves or less. What is the acceptable length of a game >>in a database? It just seems that a game of less than 15 moves really isn't a >>game considering some games are rarely out of the opening that soon. Thoughts? > >The short games are mistakes, for the most part. We can still learn from them. > >This is the shortest chess game: >"I resign." I suspect that most of the short games at high level are draws between players who did not want to play. What about the following game. offer a draw accepted. Can you learn something from it? Note that in most cases players who want a draw do not do it in that way and after a small number of moves they agree to draw when the position is still known theory. I think that a rule that forbid players to draw by repetition before move 40 or to offer a draw to their opponents when the position is not a dead draw can help. People may plan a draw of more than 40 moves before the game but I guess that most of them will be too lazy to do it and a lot of the short draws are also cases when the sides did not agree about draw before the game but one player decided to offer a draw after seeing that the position is equal when the second player accepted because he was afraid to lose. Uri
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