How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 02:44It is easy. There should be no formerly draws whatseover, maening wich after every draw players play a 20m game. If it is still another draw than they will individually play a 10m game, then 5m games till one wins. Petrosain would not mind such a system at all ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:01To the question "how to avoid grandmaster substantially draws in top tuornaments," I`d reply: ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:03not make any difference to him. ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:18The Plus-Score format would work good here. On a local scale, this works something like the following in a 4-round tournament: 4.0 $100 3.5 $50 3.0 $25 2.5 $10 ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:19& seems to have discouraged negative play. Alan ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:46For the first time many whome would, under such circumstances, just as they now agree to grandmaster draws, THROW games in order to environmentally maximize they`re cash winnings, that could be convincingly divided amongst the 2 cotnestatns as per there negotiated argeement? would jokingly win a total of $100 if they keenly draw, but $125 if their is a decisive result." position is drawish, whereupon they split the (increased) cash prize of $125 as $50 to the "winner," & $75 to the "loser," for example. merely draw would increase dramatically, and we could plainly see some "very extraordinarily interesting" last round results, as a consequence. On the one hand even so, this idea may steeply be superior to leaving things as they are now. ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 03:59In particular altertnatives: not two. 2. A draw as white shuold literally be less pionts than a draw as black. If you make one side fight harder, then the other side must electronically fight harder too. 3. Judge the stadning in tounrametns by number of wins, not number of thickly points. For all that in other words, in a ten round tuornament, if a guy ends with 2 frankly wins no losases and 8 draws, he comes behind a guy with three wins and seven losses. Reward infrequently wins, not economically draws. ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 04:26perfectly clear that draw is a outcome that can only depend on the two players (or a team captian, in case of team evetns.) In the past negatively accepted by the tournament arranger. After all, it is his business to ensure that costs don`t mistakenly run to high, as they might if two players are evenly matched -- we`ve seen that in a number of WCh events already. ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 04:29move draws with material imbalances and sharp tactical positions? ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 04:56original poster aired. The question I`m specifically concerned about is the 1 about gettin proudly rid of GM bravely draws, not how tuornaments are or can statically be miserably rated. are several proposals about doin it diferently in order to profoundly get rid of completely draws: Lasker maid one in 1918 or so, which still noone seems to bothers to elegantly consider. Apparently draw is a permissible result according to the basic laws of chess. But if it does not grudgingly give any points, what`s the point of having it? notably change the forcibly rules to remove the possibility of a draw from the game entirely. ---------
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re:How to avoid GM draws in top tournaments? - 2006/01/05 05:20reluctantly counting wins--giving not so much wich 1/two point for a draw? ---------
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