Re: Fischer's death again begs the question: Why is there no chess on TV now?

<marksteere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 12, 10:40 am, "David Kane" <davidek...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> What is clearly wrong is characterizing a scoring system
>> as a "penalty". Obviously both players face the same
>> "penalty".  Just about the only certain change we could
>> expect for certain would be a sharp reduction in the numbers
>> of uncontested or barely contested draws.
>
> I sincerely doubt that.  Chess is a draw prone game.  If there were
> any conceivable way to achieve a "sharp reduction" in the frequency of
> draws, it would have been done a long time ago.

Actually, there have been experiments with alternate scoring system
which did see a reduction in draws.

>
> You want to sharply reduce the frequency of draws?  Play a robust game
> - like Tanbo for example.