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You know, I don't think FIDE is quite dead, but this sort of thing shows
it's not doing as well as it used to be. At the very least, they should
change the scoring. I'm almost tempted to say players should lose 0.1
points each for a draw, and only the stalemating player should get 0.5
points. I know the arguments about having to capture the king before he
could suicide, so checkmate is the win, and nothing else, but how many
hockey fans would be content to see their teams win only a handful of
games in a year [as hockey allows draws, also]? It's tough for an
outsider to see the excitement in a tourney where everyone started out
even, and after the first round, everyone is still even. I'd like to see
these guys play in a variants tournament. Bet we'd see winners and losers
then.

Sorry to step on anyone's toes, but how popular would the World Series
be, if the Yankees won/lost [pick one] a 7-game series by the score of 1
game to none? No matter how much you love/hate the Yankees, who'd watch
such a yawner? [I'm a New Yorker, and a Mets fan, and I wouldn't watch 7
games to see the Yankees lose once and draw 6, even to the Mets - I'd
watch the game the Mets won, but who can tell beforehand? So after a few
draws, I'd stop watching.]