Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 18:59:50 08/25/03
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On August 25, 2003 at 18:50:12, Rajen Gupta wrote: >wins and losses make money; draws get nothing; and no appearance money. > >am quite sure that the humnas will have to fight for their lives! For some reason you and Sally live in lala land when this topic comes up. There is absolutely no way on earth that any of the players you mentioned would play under those conditions. Yes, it would make for good entertainment, but there is ZERO reason for any of those players to participate in such an event. "Duty to all mankind" is obviously not important to them, or they wouldn't accept boring draws like they do in the first place. Besides, money for losses but not draws? How many legitimate chess players do you think you're going to attract with that backwards offer? Boring draws are a problem, but you're throwing out the baby with the dirty water here. For every super-GM match that ends in a boring draw, there are plenty of other legitimate draws. There are certainly improvements that can be made to this situation, but awarding no money for draws and significant money for a loss is not one of them.
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