Hi Rich,
While I agree with some of what you say, I dont think chess has a draw
issue at all. I took a quick look at all the chess games I played when I
was active - very few draws. This seems to happen more in the GM level -
the grandmaster draw (less than 20 moves) could easily be banned.
And many well contested games that end in draws at proper completeion are
actually quite interesting - I say just get rid of the draw offer for
major tournaments/matches.
Getting rid of Stalemate, 3 move repetition seems like a major step
backwards so I would nt call them patches - more like deleting essential
components.
I am probably in the minority here defending orthodox chess but its
probably because I am more interested in chess-like variants than most,
and I was not too long ago a chess enthusiast.
