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George Duke wrote on Wed, Nov 30, 2016 07:13 PM UTC:

Today will settle the championship in peewee Chess.  Watch the paint dry live: 2016.

2016. As expected it is Simpleminded Draws 10, Karjakin 1, Carlsen 1 in regulation, so Rapid play and if necessary Blitz will determine winner.  The Draw Death era started before f.i.d.e. surfaced in 1924 in the Capa and Lasker time, despite grandmasters constant rationalization that this or that sophistication in play followed. In fact, the purpose of F.I.D.E. has been to thwart reform and variations, enforcing dreary conformity.

Yasser Seirawan wanting to be the block mother helping the residents proposes a 13th game in future cases like this, a typically tepid solution: Thirteen. Seirawan published 5000-word articles 2000 on one after another to remedy the split title,

like this one Title, until some Russians and East Europeans would ask undiplomatically, who is this intruder, that his opinion even matters? The title was going to be unified anyway without garrulity.

Here is what cards Bridge expert says about Chess Draw problem: No_Draws.

If Orthodox forces just gave up on little 64 squares, as presenting only artificial solutions, and adopted 8x10 Capablanca board there are many solutions in dozen or more great CVs. It has been Chess Variant Page topic many times in twenty years, how to proceed or in Lenin's words "What is to be done?," and fundamentalists of ChessBase and f.i.d.e. are scared to venture into reform ideas as beyond their mentality.


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