Author: Jesus de la Villa
Date: 00:47:53 08/17/99
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On August 16, 1999 at 21:28:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 16, 1999 at 19:03:23, Jesus de la Villa wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>Some previous post (from today) Robert Hyatt was talking about hes efforts to >>make Crafty avoid "Drawish Styles", he said that with this "non-drawish >>style" Crafty could lose some games, but would win much more. >>(I hope i made a reasonable translation of bobs thoughts, if don't excuse me) >> >>This "Non-drawish style" must be rewarded in the score, for example: >> >>A win scores 1.5 >>A draw scores .5 >>A lose scores 0 >> >>The consecuences are very interesting, supose the last round of a tournament, >>if you lead by .5, you cant be safety with a draw, because of the 1.5 points >>if the other behind you wins, you must play to win. >> >>This way, a player who plays to win, in general, will win more points. >> >>This would impact directly to playing styles in both, humans and machines, >>rewarding those who plays to win. >> >>We will see or play more interesting games. >> >>just a thought > > >This has been discussed many times. But in general, no one really wants >to change. The issue is usually brought up by "GM draws"... I'm relative new to this chess club, so, i din't know about the topic, but, the most of you know this is a serious topic that "must" change to make chess more interesting. (more than it is by now). Can anyone give me links to this issue, i'm really interested.
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