Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 05:36:13 03/03/05
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On March 02, 2005 at 13:24:13, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On March 02, 2005 at 12:45:32, Roger D Davis 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 ;-) >> >>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 > >This latter idea would result in some rather peculiar games, since a loss would >be worth more than a draw. As the game neared a seeming inevitable draw. The >players would either flip a coin to determine which one should resign or they >would engage in a battle to determine who must be compelled to resign to avoid >playing the otherwise forced drawing move. Needless to say, there would be no >incentive to claim a draw by 3-fold rep or the 50-move rule. > >I think you can consign this idea to your half-baked file. Yeah, I was only half serious, which goes along with it being half baked, I guess. Roger
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