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Fischer had the right idea that draws shouldn't count.

However, the idea that a match should have unlimited games turns it from a test of skill to a test of stamina.

A simple compromise would be to not count draws for scoring or rating.

This would have a long term negative rating effect on drawing players

The winner of a tournament is the one with the most wins. 

 Losses are not deducted from the score, only from the rating.

There would be no tiebreaks.

In tournaments first place is shared.

In championship matches the titleholder retains his crown.

In other matches the higher rated player wins.

The law of the jungle says, if you are lower on the totem pole, it is your job to take it away from the one who is higher.

Fischer's fear was that, in a match, one loss would put you at a disadvantage against a drawing player.

To help reduce this factor, the number of games should be increased to 15 in a championship and 6 in a knockout.

These changes would, I think, simplify the game without affecting the rules or trying to eliminate draws.

Fischer was right when he said that the public wants to see blood. This would improve chess as a sport without sacrificing it as an art.

Chess is based on war and should stay true to that theme.

In war there is no reward for a draw.

War rewards the conqueror.

Let us have more Fischer type results.

Donner wrote in Schaakbulletin: ‘What was never possible, and always dreamed of,

unfolds at this actual, true moment in the direction of the absolute. The great world clock,

mother of all clocks, has struck piercingly over the continent of violence,

shrill and unequivocal: 6-0, 6-0.

This deep tear between all and nothing, drawn into the instant,

has grasped the world in its vibration, and has driven its terrible and merciless essence

among the friendly smiles and handshakes in sick and tired old Europe.’

Bombastic verbosity can help when it’s hard to put your admiration into words.