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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by simonh on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:01PM (#18555103)
I think it’s an awful idea, because it encourages the team that won the tie to play safely and defensively and aim for acdraw. That makes for a tedious game to watch.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by mcqueenjordan on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:16PM (#18555212)
Completely agree. Drawish behavior would likely increase with this policy, not decrease. Because it's incredibly hard at this level to beat a player that's explicitly playing for a draw.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by kmonsen on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:15PM (#18555204)
It is kind of what happened here since Carlsen had sort of won the tie-breaker already.
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