14 Feb 17
Originally posted by greenpawn34Maybe FIDE should make a new rule: Both players over 2700, you checkmate your opponent, you get TWO points instead of one for the win, since checkmate at that level happens so rarely.
No difference in points or grading.
When I look for Hall of Doom Candidates I always look for checkmates first.
If you have blundered and do not want to become notorious then resign. (but I'll still find it someday!)
No difference in points of grading.
15 Feb 17
Originally posted by sonhouseI'm not sure I understand this. I can't think of a good reason why a player would willingly allow his/her opponent to get two points by playing it out to mate (except to skew the score to keep a third party from winning a prize, or something like that-like Kramnik or Topolov doing it out of spite just to keep the other guy from winning something). They would surely just resign and retire to the pub.
Maybe FIDE should make a new rule: Both players over 2700, you checkmate your opponent, you get TWO points instead of one for the win, since checkmate at that level happens so rarely.
In a normal time control, it would take a blunder for a player to allow a mate, and I am not a big fan of awarding a player an extra point because his opponent blundered. What am I missing?
15 Feb 17
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Originally posted by Paul LeggettThat type of rule would certainly damage the few glorious beauties we get every now and then. Take
I'm not sure I understand this. I can't think of a good reason why a player would willingly allow his/her opponent to get two points by playing it out to mate (except to skew the score to keep a third party from winning a prize, or something like that-like Kramnik or Topolov doing it out of spite just to keep the other guy from winning something). The ...[text shortened]... big fan of awarding a player an extra point because his opponent blundered. What am I missing?
Boris Spassky vs. Joop Van Oosterom Antwerp 1955
Some brilliancies deserve to shine to their end. This miniature seems so quiet, but Spassky's 17. Nf5! Is among my favorite moves in chess.
Spassky gives us a simple mate in a bold and yet delicate thrust. Joop in all his brilliant slow positional python style - is caught with his coils round a blade - and obliges Spassky's finish.
-GIN