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taking all your opponents pieces (pawns included)??

I read that in the 70s FIDE considered changing the rules to try and avoid so many draws at GM level.

What are your thoughts? Let's have a vote.

1. Yes you should be able to win this way.
2. No you shouldn't.

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Originally posted by marinakatomb
taking all your opponents pieces (pawns included)??

I read that in the 70s FIDE considered changing the rules to try and avoid so many draws at GM level.

What are your thoughts? Let's have a vote.

1. Yes you should be able to win this way.
2. No you shouldn't.

😀
Err... isn't this already so? Well sort of. If you take all his pieces off you can just slowly checkmate him.

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Not sure I understand.

Are you saying that if you take all your opponents pieces it should be a draw?

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Originally posted by Dfthd
Err... isn't this already so? Well sort of. If you take all his pieces off you can just slowly checkmate him.
Not if you don't have mating material.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Not if you don't have mating material.
Yes but I don't see how its not a draw then. There is no problem with drawing in general its just those <20 move GM draws that they have a problem with so I don't see how that solves the problem.

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Originally posted by Dfthd
Yes but I don't see how its not a draw then. There is no problem with drawing in general its just those <20 move GM draws that they have a problem with so I don't see how that solves the problem.
Neither do I. I was just pointing out the flaw in your statement.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Neither do I. I was just pointing out the flaw in your statement.
Yeah but I assumed people knew about insufficient material to mate and that taking all his pieces off meant just that: removing all his pieces without checkmating.

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i would like:
it only matters if you eat the enemy king ... and you actually do capture it.

this means ... 2 knights can win easily.

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Originally posted by marinakatomb
taking all your opponents pieces (pawns included)??

I read that in the 70s FIDE considered changing the rules to try and avoid so many draws at GM level.

What are your thoughts? Let's have a vote.

1. Yes you should be able to win this way.
2. No you shouldn't.

😀
I dont get the point. if you eat all opponents pieces, then at some point your opponent has to be mated (so that you can eat his king). and mate is game over.

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Originally posted by flexmore
this means ... 2 knights can win easily.
Nope, the arbiter would think otherwise and call it a draw, as two lone knights is insufficient material to force a draw.

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If you've captured all your opponent's pieces and pawns, but her king stands in front of your last pawn, it is a draw, as it should be.

Let's keep the basic rules as they are.

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Originally posted by flexmore
i would like:
it only matters if you eat the enemy king ... and you actually do capture it.

this means ... 2 knights can win easily.
If 2 knights can't checkmate, how can they "eat" the enemy king easily? Unless you're suggesting that the stalemate rule be changed as well.

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Originally posted by THUDandBLUNDER
Nope, the arbiter would think otherwise and call it a draw, as two lone knights is insufficient material to force a draw.
I had one guy bringing me to move 120+ because he said he could checkmate me using 2 knights and I said he couldn't and he wanted to prove that he could and he didn't.

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Originally posted by ark13
If 2 knights can't checkmate, how can they "eat" the enemy king easily? Unless you're suggesting that the stalemate rule be changed as well.
The reason two Knights cannot checkmate might be that the enemy King cannot move into check. I'm guessing the proposal is that stalemate be removed.

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Originally posted by marinakatomb
taking all your opponents pieces (pawns included)??

I read that in the 70s FIDE considered changing the rules to try and avoid so many draws at GM level.

What are your thoughts? Let's have a vote.

1. Yes you should be able to win this way.
2. No you shouldn't.

😀
April Fool, perhaps?

It was tried this year too:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2303