I nominate Giri. Because everyone knows why.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you ... the Pacifist Awards!
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The first Pacifist Award will be given at the end of the Tata Steel Masters. With 3 rounds left to go, Anish Giri and Pentala Harikrishna are currently tied for the lead with 8/10.
Jan 25, 2017
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#4
All this talk tells me is that many people don't look at all the games in detail.
Many of Giri's draws are fighting draws.
Many of Giri's draws are fighting draws.
Jan 25, 2017
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#5
If there is an award out there I WILL WIN THE AWARD!!! I am the FUTURE!!!
Just give Giri one for candidates right now
Jan 25, 2017
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morethantwentycharac wrote:
BrownsteinbearPawn wrote:
If there is an award out there I WILL WIN THE AWARD!!! I am the FUTURE!!!
Why haven't we played yet? I was going to give you the win.
I dunno exactly
Boyangzhao wrote:
Just give Giri one for candidates right now
The award was just established today, and therefore will not be given for performances in tournaments in past years. I am interested, however, in digging through past records sometime, and seeing who would have won the award and the Ultimate Pacifist title in past years, had the award existed at the time.
In addition to giving awards to draw masters, I will also engage in advocacy on behalf of drawish players in order to improve their treatment by tournament organizers and the chess community at large. I have some specific advocacy projects in mind, which will be revealed when the time comes.
With just 1 more round left, Giri and Harikrishna countinue to lead with 10/12. Tomorrow Giri plays Eljanov with white, and Harikrishna has black against Van Wely. If they can both draw their games, they will be co-winners of the first ever Pacifist Award! Let's wish them luck!
Congratulations to Anish Giri for winning the first Pacifist Award with a score of 11/13 in the Tata Steel Masters!
After 2 months without a tournament worthy of being considered for the Pacifist Awards, tomorrow the US Championship is set to begin, with the following participants:
2017 U.S. Championship | Participants
| No | Fed | Name | Invitational Rating | FIDE Rating | Qualification |
| 1 | GM Fabiano Caruana | 2866 | 2817 | U.S. Champion | |
| 2 | GM Wesley So | 2841 | 2822 | Rating | |
| 3 | GM Hikaru Nakamura | 2821 | 2793 | Rating | |
| 4 | GM Ray Robson | 2719 | 2668 | Rating | |
| 5 | GM Sam Shankland | 2717 | 2666 | Rating | |
| 6 | GM Jeffery Xiong | 2715 | 2674 | U.S. Junior Champion | |
| 7 | GM Gata Kamsky | 2709 | 2659 | Rating | |
| 8 | GM Alex Onischuk | 2694 | 2667 | Rating | |
| 9 | GM Daniel Naroditsky | 2690 | 2646 | Rating | |
| 10 | GM Varuzhan Akobian | 2680 | 2645 | Rating | |
| 11 | GM Alex Shabalov | 2618 | 2556 | U.S. Open Champion | |
| 12 | GM Yaroslav Zherebukh | 2657 | 2605 | Wildcard |
Who among the field do you think will leave with the coveted Pacifist Award at the end of the tournament? Let us know in the comments below!
Belated congratulations to Wesley So for winning the Pacifist Award for the US Championship with a score of 8/11! So also happened to win 1st place in the championship, showing us that pacifism is the way to go! What a great performance by Wesley!
In other news, the Grenke Chess Classic is currently underway. Its participants are Levon Aronian, Hou Yifan, Matthias Bluebaum, Arkadij Naiditsch, Georg Meier, Fabiano Caruana, Magnus Carlsen and Maxime-Vachier Lagrave. Round 1 finished earlier today, in which Bluebaum, Carlsen, Aronian and Meier managed to score draws. Who do you think will go home with the Pacifist Award for this prestigious event? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!
Apr 15, 2017
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#14
I have a feeling that Bluebaum will win the Pacifist award. He drew Carlsen, showing that he will be happy to draw everyone.
Apr 15, 2017
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#15
RAR masters are bad at winning pacifist awards because they flag their opponents in drawn positions instead of offering a draw.
So far Carlsen is leading in the Pacifist Award race with a perfect 3/3. There is still more than half of the tournament left to go, however, and the standings could change dramatically with future rounds.
Joseph_Truelson wrote:
He's in good form for the award
Indeed he is! After 4 rounds, he is at least 2 games ahead of everyone else, with a perfect 4/4. With just 3 more rounds to go, he is closing in on the award.
Carlsen isn't satisfied as just World Champion, he wants to dethrone Giri as World Draw Champion as well.
With one more round still left to go, Magnus Carlsen has already clinched the Pacifist Award for the Grenke Chess Classic with 5 draws in 6 games! Congratulations to the World Champion!
Carlsen still has more to play for, however. If he manages to draw his last game of the tournament (against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave), his Pacifist Percentage Score of 6/7 will be higher than Giri's for Tata Steel and So's for the US Championship, putting him in 1st place in the 2017 Pacifist Award standings! Will he manage to do it? Stay tuned to find out!
Meanwhile, the Gashimov Memorial has started, with a field that includes Wesley So, Vladimir Kramnik, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mammedyarov and many other top players in the world! In fact, no one in the field is rating below 2700! This tournament just might be the strongest that has taken place since the Pacifist Awards were established, so winning the award for this event will no doubt be an honor of the highest level! So who do you think this honor will fall to when the dust settles? Let us know in the comments below!
In an age when fans seem fixated on decisive games, sharp tactics and daring sacrifices, there is a certain breed of chess player that is systematically overlooked and undervalued by a vast majority of the chess community. I am speaking, of course, of the draw masters, who consistently grace the board with their solid openings and quiet, unassuming play, yet receive in return minimal appreciation, and at times even outright condemnation. In an effort to remedy this grave injustice, and give these draw masters a platform where they can be fully appreciated, I have established the Pacifist Awards.
A Pacifist Award will be given at the end of each elite (multiple top 10 players) closed classical tournament to the player who scored the most draws in the tournament. If two or more players are tied, the award goes to the player with the fewest losses (among the tied leaders in draws). If two or more players are still tied, they all receive the award; however, it will be noted that they did not win the award outright, a distinction that becomes relevant when the Ultimate Pacifist title is bestowed at the end of the year.
The title is won by the player with the most Pacifist Awards in that particular year. The tiebreaks for the title are as follows:
1. If two or more players have the same number of awards, the player with the most outright wins is given the title.
2. If there is still a tie, the Pacifist Percentage Scores (total drawn games / total games played) of all tied players in the tournaments in which they won their awards are calculated, and the player with the highest score wins.
3. If there is still a tie, the player with the highest FIDE classical rating at the time that the title is given wins.
... and thus, the Pacifist Awards are established. I wish all players competing for the award the best of luck. Hopefully, the establishment of the awards will allow more people to realize the great contribution that draw masters make to the game of chess, and perhaps even inspire more up and coming players to become draw masters themselves.