Newsgroup: it.hobby.scacchi
Titolo: Cercasi torneo

Cercasi torneo disposto a sperimentare quest'idea proposta nel forum FIDE,
cosě come fece Ruzza per il sistema 5-2-0.
Alex
How about the following idea?
The many draws in chess can sometimes appear unsportmanlike and grandmaster
draws in the final rounds are not good for the promotion of chess, as
Maurice Ashley recently pointed out (
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/ashley03.html
 ). The reason why this problem
is so hard to solve is because a drawn game is really the natural end result
of a game of chess. We cannot disallow draws because that would force the
players to violate the laws of chess and the quality of the games would
deteriorate. Instead I suggest the following solution which allows any
number of drawn games while only a certain number of draws will be counted
in the final result. If the player draws more games than his allowed share,
these extra draws will not be added to the final result. However, these
excessive draws will be accounted for in the Elo calculation. For example,
in a nine round tournament, we might allow a maximum of three draws to be
added to the final result. It is likely that some of the top players have
used up their draws before the final round. In this case they have a greater
motivation to play for a win in the final round, and the chess audience is
spared the boring sight of the top players walking off the podium at an
early stage. On the other hand, if a player has played boldly and exhausted
himself in the tournament, nobody can blame him for playing the French
Exchange in the last round and get an early draw. He has the option to do so
because he has not used up his draws. A player further down in the list
might choose not to bother about his excessive draws because he has no
chance to win any price money, anyway. So he can still play "according to
position" and will feel no need to torture his opponent endlessly in an
opposite bishops endgame. The excessive draw will be added to his rating but
not to the end result. So it seems that everybody will be happy with this
solution, with one exception: grandmasters with a drawish playing style.
They will have to forgo the price money more often. One might consider to
simply add an extra column in the score table and retain the old standard
column that keeps account of all draws. I think this solution will add to
the sporting atmosphere in the tournament hall as the top players will
decidedly be more ambitious. They wouldn't want to waste their share of
draws too easily. A side effect of this is also that a lost game is somewhat
less catastrophic to a top player. His chances of catching up is somewhat
greater because his competitors might not have the comfortable option to
draw themselves past the finishing line.
Mats Winther,
Stockholm, Sweden.

 How about the following idea?
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Mi sembra quasi meglio del 5-2-0 o di altre cose del genere.
Si tratta solo di valutare che impatto avrebbe una cosa del genere in
tornei chiusi: forse nei chiusi avrebbe comunque poco senso, sia il voler
limitare il numero di patte che il 5-2-0 visto che nelle due partite di
andata e ritorno i due potrebbero accordarsi per vincere una partita a
testa invece di fare due patte.
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