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| "HB Super Event" <hbpromotion@publicist.com> wrote in message
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> The End of the Draw Offer?
> An open letter by GM Maurice Ashley
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> To all chess fans:
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> Recently I have been thinking about a practice in chess that I believe
> needs to be discussed by all of us who love this game, and that is, the
> draw offer. This topic started to occupy my mind mainly because of two
> events: the 2003 US Championships and the Kasparov-Deep Junior match at
> which I was a commentator. In the former, with 8 players tied for first
> going into the last round and a $25,000 first-place prize up for grabs,
> draw offers were made and quickly accepted on three of the top four
> boards. In the latter, after having captured the imagination of
> millions of chess playing fans and the general public, the players
> stunned everyone by agreeing to a draw in a position where the tension
> was reaching its peak.
>
Well, I think that it isn`t the best example of a short draw. The best
examples of short draws come from Linares elite chess tournments.
There`s a simple solution to short draws given by Mark Dvoretsky : players
shouldn`t communicate with each other during the game i.e. they shouldn`t
make draw offers during the game. Sounds paradoxically ? Yes, but IMHO it
will work ;-)
Jerzy
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