Just out of curiousity? How many of your last 100 games have been draws?
In live chess standard, my draw percentage is a spectacular 6%
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You get to change the rules of chess when you're good enough to even matter. That's pretty much the rule for anything, actually.
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Just out of curiousity? How many of your last 100 games have been draws?
In live chess standard, my draw percentage is a spectacular 6%
I think I personally draw less than 3%, but I play a really aggressive style. I'm talking about the good of chess overall as a popular spectator and far more popular participant SPORT . . . the changes I suggest would hardly impact me, but an awful lot of Grandmasters base their play upon the proclivity of their favorite openings to result in draws, I believe.
Adding pieces is far too drastic imo. It would only make it harder on the players and FIDE is doing a great job of that as it is.
Increasing the value of draws for Black would only decrease the number of people that bother to play for a win with the Black pieces.
It would be more sensible to increase the value of a win as they do in some tournaments with a 3/0.5/0 system.
That is a very intelligent comment! FIFA, the world soccer organization changed to a 3/1/0 system and it greatly improved the game especially in important tournaments. THANK YOU! I would suggest the 3/1/0 system over your 3/0.5/0 system but either one would be a great improvement. THANKS AGAIN!
Based upon the superb and wise comment of Anthony CG: I would amend my original forum comment to reflect the point award system he mentioned which I modified:
In another spot on the forum, I commented on a "strange draw" by saying . . .
The "Grandmaster Draw" shown here is regretable. Chess has too many "dead" things about it that turn off players and spectators. The simplest and best thing to do is probably something that FIDE will never do: award far different points based upon fighting chess. For example all draws score 1.0 for Black and 1.0 for White but all decisive games score 3 points for the winner and 0 for the loser. That simple change would make "fighting chess" and real efforts by Black and White in last round Swiss tournament games and in all rounds far more likely.
If you want to really spice chess up, make it 10 X 8 and add the Chinese Chess piece known as the catapult (two per side between Knights and Bishops). The game would become dramatically more exciting and popular within five years. More importantly all the memorization of openings would instantaneously be OUT of style and useless and people would be on their own resources from move #1.
I would like to propose that our favorite chess site (chess.com) run a separate "Hyper-Chess" section online. Hyper-chess would include two areas. 1) regular chess tournaments as now, but where all draws are scored .6 for Black and .4 for White 2) A "Modern Chess" section which includes 10 X 8 chess with the Chinese Chess CATAPULT made part of the game. A possible third area would combine 1) and 2).
I have played and loved Chinese Chess as well as our game, and must acknowledge that regular chess is somewhat better. However, the Catapult is by far the most exciting chess piece ever invented and would dramatically improve our favorite game!
By the way, the itsyourturn.com website includes Chinese Chess and more about the game can be found here:
Here's some key info about the Catapult: Catapults MOVE exactly like the rook but CAPTURE in a very distinct fashion over any distance by jumping a single piece (friendly or enemy, no matter) along their path vertically or horizontally aka orthoganally which means both vertically and horizontally simultaneously and then capturing the very next pawn or piece in that straight line. NOTE: the Catapult may NOT jump over intervening pieces when NOT capturing another piece, nor may it capture without jumping. Any number of unoccupied spaces may exist between the cannon and the screening piece or pawn; or between the screening piece or pawn and the piece to be captured, including no spaces at all (the pieces being adjacent) in both cases. The specter of two catapults churning up a row or across a file is incredibly (each piece acts as attacker and screen on alternate moves) powerful.
I will also add a bit more info on the Catapult: Two Catapults when used together to attack the King, can form a check that cannot be stopped easily. As they line up in the attack against the opposing King, the rearmost Catapult checks the King while the foreward Catapult, serving as the screen for the rear one, prohibits blocking in front of himself for the opposing side (it would put the King in check). The opposing side can only move the King, capture the rear Catapult, or block by interposing a screen between the two Catapults . . . a lot more tactics!
In another spot on the forum, I commented on a "strange draw" by saying . . .
The "Grandmaster Draw" shown here is regretable. Chess has too many "dead" things about it that turn off players and spectators. The simplest and best thing to do is probably something that FIDE will never do: award different points based upon color. For example all draws score .6 for Black and .4 for White rather than .5 for each. That simple change would make "fighting chess" and real efforts by Black and White in last round Swiss tournament games far more likely. If you want to really spice chess up, make it 10 X 8 and add the Chinese Chess piece known as the catapult (two per side between Knights and Bishops). The game would become dramatically more exciting and popular within five years. More importantly all the memorization of openings would instantaneously be OUT of style and useless and people would be on their own resources from move #1.
I would like to propose that our favorite chess site (chess.com) run a separate "Hyper-Chess" section online. Hyper-chess would include two areas. 1) regular chess tournaments as now, but where all draws are scored .6 for Black and .4 for White 2) A "Modern Chess" section which includes 10 X 8 chess with the Chinese Chess CATAPULT made part of the game. A possible third area would combine 1) and 2).
I have played and loved Chinese Chess as well as our game, and must acknowledge that regular chess is somewhat better. However, the Catapult is by far the most exciting chess piece ever invented and would dramatically improve our favorite game!
By the way, the itsyourturn.com website includes Chinese Chess and more about the game can be found here:
Here's some key info about the Catapult: Catapults MOVE exactly like the rook but CAPTURE in a very distinct fashion over any distance by jumping a single piece (friendly or enemy, no matter) along their path vertically or horizontally aka orthoganally which means both vertically and horizontally simultaneously and then capturing the very next pawn or piece in that straight line. NOTE: the Catapult may NOT jump over intervening pieces when NOT capturing another piece, nor may it capture without jumping. Any number of unoccupied spaces may exist between the cannon and the screening piece or pawn; or between the screening piece or pawn and the piece to be captured, including no spaces at all (the pieces being adjacent) in both cases. The specter of two catapults churning up a row or across a file is incredibly (each piece acts as attacker and screen on alternate moves) powerful.