I was talking with a friend of mine, an International Arbiter.
He told me that he thinks stalemate should not be a draw, it could be more "fun" if it was assigned another value for it, for instance, 0.6 - 0.4 instead of 0.5 - 0.5.
What do you think ?
A. Ponti
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I believe stalemate was a win in the old days. It does make more sense to score it as draw, on grounds that one must not be forced to commit suicide with a move.
Ponti wrote:I was talking with a friend of mine, an International Arbiter.
He told me that he thinks stalemate should not be a draw, it could be more "fun" if it was assigned another value for it, for instance, 0.6 - 0.4 instead of 0.5 - 0.5.
What do you think ?
definitely no; this does not take into consideration the most important factor in chess - checking the enemy king.
besides, stalemates are relatively infrequent and this scoring will only distort competition, stalemates happening on a completely random pattern, favouring a completely random player.
what if this occurs in a WC decider? the winner won with 0.2 points difference without delivering mate?