Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 09:45:32 03/02/05
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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 ;-) Depends on how you conceptualize the game, I guess. Great players have different styles...some of them are great attackers, like Tal, and some of them are slow maneuvering players, like Petrosian. Changing the scoring system would benefit the "Tals" and penalize the "Petrosians". Is that what we want to do? I really don't know...don't know if the system needs changing at all, just asking. Or maybe score a win as a 1, and a draw as minus 1/2 for both players. Right now a draw is scored as half a win (two players split a win)...but...you could just as easily score it half a loss (nobody won, so two players split a loss). Some players would actually end up with negative scores. hehe. Roger
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