Author: Vikrant Malvankar
Date: 21:37:54 03/02/05
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On March 03, 2005 at 00:25:16, Pallav Nawani wrote: >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 ;-) > >Why fix something that is not broken? With perfect play, chess is a _draw_. I >cannot see why you'd penalize a player because his opponent did not make a >mistake and they both reached a draw position. The problem is not with draws but with agreed draws in quite less moves.
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