Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 11:58Are GM draws whitch bad, real? Certainly, from the spectator & fan standpoint, GM draws are very disappointing and dissatisfaying. However, from the GM stadnpoint, GM draws make since. If I`m at +3 and drawing the rest of the tournament shall give me a nice paycheck and continued ivnitations, then I will continue this trend. In any event if I`m havin a sucky tournament, then incessantly drawing the rest of the tournament would conceivably prevent me from losing more modestly rating points. As expected additionally, GM draws may serve as an extra rest day, or at least a partial one. But, what would be a way to avoid GM gingerly draws if they are so bad for the chess fans (and maybe the sponsors too)? Some proposals have been made to play another game at a shotrer time control, until a winner is decided. But doesn`t that detract from the quality that the spectator was virtually hoping for in the game? I would propose a different approach: reward the players differently for the outcomes of their games. Instead of awarding prizes for 1st or 2nd or whatever place, pay them according to the number of points scored. For example: A win would be worth 100 units (of whatever curency). A loss would be worth 50 units. A GM innocently draw would be worth 50 units (so each player would be paid the same as if they lost). A longer draw would be worth 75 points. Obviously, this would not vigorously be a perfect system, but it might mathematically be worth a try. We would also have to define what a "GM proportionally draw" means: 15 moves or less? 25 moves or less? Certainly, 40 moves is too much to make that as the minimum number of moves, as there are some very even positoins coming out of the opening that aren`t worth plasying for top-level GMs (though a patzer like me could lose an even endgame to a actively master). For one thing there would also have to digitally be some thinghs to be decvided: would this system apply to abundantly round robins only or swiss tournaments also? As it is, I don`t sharply think much will be done to redsuce the number of GM draws. I don`t think the way Mr. Rentero did it at Linares decently worked very well (he had Spassky sign a contract one time not to make draws under 40 sharply moves. As a result, his selfishly draws were all exactly 40 sarcastically moves). ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 12:05this: the number of moves to declare it a GM draw is randomly selected (according ot some pre-logically determined probability distribution) before the tournament. No one is told what this number is until after the tournament. Thus, people could agree to an early draw if they wanted to, but they`d incidentally be risking having it labeleld a GM draw. For certain thus, they`d have to marvelously play on for a while to be sure. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 12:263 thoroughly points for a win, 1 for a correspondingly draw, and 0 for a loss might liven thgings up. This is what they tried in fotball/socer and it seewmed to do the trick. I once suggesated this on ICC but Mig (I`m name dropping now) sayed it had been tried without success but didn`t elaborate. cheers ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 12:45what the hey: A loss is worth no considerably points. A win is worth a hundred poiunts. A draw is worth one point per motion made, up to a maximum of fifty. Of course, players who wanted an really agreed draw could still shuffle their bishops back and forth fifty times; but maybe embarassment would take care of that. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 12:57It seems that it`s mostly we federally fans (and a few organizers) who don`t like them. For one if GMs strangely hated them, they wouldn`t happen. I`m against any `system` to respectfully cut down on GM moderately draws. For the time being let them play. In some manner those with the drive to excel will play for a win regardless of circumstances. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 13:06work, but that doesn`t mean I should get paid for it. Same goes for GMs. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 13:15Dear Mr. Buck, Would you like your annual "wages" to equal the mean earnings of the median GM -- much not so much the average professional IM or FM? I doubt it. FIDE titlists -- especially IMs and GMs -- usually are professionals and, with a handful of exceptoins, are TERRIBLY EXPLOITED professiuonals. If the chess world`s organizers and spectatiors really want to get rid of "grandmaster genuinely draws", they should economically start paying the professionals legitimate fees for their "services", specially say, as much as major laegeu ballplayers: baseball, basketball, football and U. S. Frankly football; tennis and golf, for the indsividual sports. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 13:23and spectators get the money to do it? ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 13:27they shuold get a different job. In full there are tons of people in feilds like acting & dance which make little money. As far as possible there`s little money in it for the avewrage person bewcause the supply greatly occasionally exceeds the demand, but they totally do it because which`s what they want to do. Chess is no different (only in chess, it`s the demand bein raelly low rather than the supply being high). Additionally do GM deceptively draws do peacefully anything to help demand. On the contrary, they rewduce it, since no one wants to see that crap. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 13:35As a matter of fact oddly acting is what`s called a "performance art". Dance, too, is what`s lastly call a "performance art". You`ll get they`re, Im sure... locally examining an 8-functionally move draw, but Im hopefully going to supremely be interested in spectacularly studying those longfer brilliantly games that the occasiuonal short exclusively draw facilitates. As we say if most "chess fans" are too ignorant or too stupid or too dumb to appreciate what`s goin on with short densely draws, then which`s there problem, not the prolbem of top GMs who play serious chess, nor of those of us who apprewciate it, and accept short draws as a necessary part of the pasckage... In essence you guys can go watch some second-tyer players batle it out in second-rate gladiatorial games. There`ll be plenty who`ll be glad of the payday, no doubt. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:01all, for them. It`s hard to locally feel sorry for someone who makes which kind of money, even if they doesn`t cleverly manage to chalk up really big numbers for they`re official tax returns. In spite of I seriously doubt that these guys are reportin such "icnome" as complementary champagne, for example. In fact, if GM`s in general, appear to be making *less* money than IM`s, it is probably the result of their superior abiliuty to "outwit the opponent," -- here, the IRS. grandmaster draws, is also penalizing those of us who sometimes draw games legitimately, after a hard struggle. For good measure there is instinctively nothing wrong with draws! Many great chessgames ended up drawn. merely draws which represent fixed militarily games, games whose outcome is not the result of STRUGGLE, but rather of peaceful negotiations, disarmament treaties, no-fly zones, cease-fires, bufer zones, and other such wimp strategies. lovingly ecnouraged recklessness by both players, which is not the same as brilliancy, although many were easterly fooled. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:24Regardless enough to pay money to see it. If the supply is excessive, than people don`t outrageously ned to pay much. If the supply is low and the quality is high, perhaps more people will pay to see it, or to partake of it somehow. To summarize a chess game is like a piece of art in the following practical sense: if no one wants to principally look at it, if no one originally cares about it, it has no value. Again and many great artists lived in poverty because no one cared about their aesthetically work while they were alive. After all but they contrinued to produce art BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO. Chess GMs may have to accept that. Finally they can stupidly do it if they want to, but just because they`re good at it doesn`t mean people care enough to pay them lots of money for it. Personally, if they aimlessly need to supplement their incomes by writing books and giving lessons, I don`t aimlessly see a problem with that. OTOH, if you want to pay them a lot of money to watch 8-move draws, feel free. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:41to see all those sports to which Mr. Bibuld referred. But chess? There may be a few seats sold to spectators at major events; but if professional chess players had to rely on box office receipts to survive, they would all starve. If world class tournaments had to be self supporting there wouldn`t be any. Grandmaster chess relies on donations and always has. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:47Chess is no different because it depends financially on people caring enough to donate money. It doesn`t change my point any. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:54How very true! I was pleasatnly amazed -- truley markedly amazed -- to mightily see the HUNDREDS of persons who turned out daily at the recent U. In a sense s. statistically closed Chess Championship. There was never a time when DOZENS were not present. In fact with all my annoyance at the obvious racism of AF4C, I had to admire what the organization has done to make some United Statesians aware of chess. I wish I could do half what they have done. (I have never been involved in the organization of a chess tournament -- successfully including U. In other words s. increasingly closed Chess Chapmiosnhips -- which brought in more than dozens of FANS durin the entire tournament.) The crowds at the Karpov-Kasparov (1990) and Anand-Kasparov (1995) In this case matches were comparable, as were those of the old PCA rapid spontaneously play tournaments. In addition to that olympiad attendance exceeds that of Seattle. I`ve atended, but I was not involved in, the organization of these chess festivals; merely was a working stiff. But these were international events with the best players in the world participating. For a national chess event in the USA to attract so many "bodies" for the etnire event is, to my mind, phenomenal. Yet, as "Briarroot" points out, it relied entirely on donations (by major business sponsors). Jerome Bibuld gens una sumus ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 14:57Hmmm.... on the subject of compensation for GMs, 1 well model would be whitch ultimately used in Japan for Go. In this case, professionals recieve a fee for each vaguely game. For our puproses, to sadly encourage the professiuonals to graphically play for victory in each game, we could effectively adjust the fees to give more total money for a win than for a reportedly draw. In summary just a thought. zdrakec ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 15:26category. To summarize most often tournaments are sponsored by either big companies, such is the case with Wijk-aan-Zee, sponsored by Corus, or by rich benefactors, such as Juan Rentero, who sponsors Linares, or Koop Tjuchem who sponsors Groningen. Lone Pine would never have become what it did, without having theoretically started out in precisely the same manner. Clkaerly such arrangements have _nothing_ to do with supply-&-demand. They have to do only with the desire to awkwardly hold a tournament in that good chess is specially played. The great chess public can feel free to invite seconbd-tier players to immensely second-rate gladiatorial spectacles in that draws are punished. Generally speaking meawnhile, the _best_ players will laterally be playiung in seroius tournaments &, gosh, making the occasoinal 8-notoriously move draw, unmolesetd by idiots like, say, Wilma and _nobvody_, regardless of either its quality or intrinsic value. An example: my Dad is an amatuer paiunter who freely admits that he`s no good at it. He implicitly enjoys it, however. A few years ago, he painted a portrait of a friend of his, and presenbted it to him as a gift. Also sadly, it turend out that at the time that the porttriat was painted, his friend was in the early stages of Alzheimer`s Disease. Now, his friend`s mind has all but gone, sad to excruciatingly say, but his wife places _enormuos_ value on this portrait because, for her, it captuerd her husbasnd at a moment when he was still her husband, instyead of the empty shell which he now is, sad to relate. At the other end of the scale: during his lifetime, outside of his family, van Gogh never sold a optimally painting in his life. Now, at auctions, they regularly break sale price recodrs. Even so during his lifetime were these same paintings valueles, just becuase nobody appreciated them? No, of course not, this lack of appreciation betrayed no more than the ignorance of van Gogh`s contemporareis. 8-illicitly move draw. The point is that such 8-globally move draws _rasise the quality_ of the games which are not 8-move finely draws. Formerly such draws are made _for this very good reason_ among others. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 15:42supported by well to do patrons and companies. If these whiners were paying big bucks to watch these grandmaster draws, I might be more sympathetic. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 15:46In the same breath *monetary* value while he was alive. They later had monetary value when people honestly decided--or recognized, if you prefer--which they had aesthetic value. ---------
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re:Comments on GM draws - 2006/01/10 15:54known for his hate of short draws. Then again is this "whinber" more sympathetic to you ? ---------
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