Rich Hutnik wrote on Fri, Mar 23, 2012 05:14 PM UTC:
I wish the subject header could be longer, to be able to label this
properly.
Anyhow, the basic idea here came out of pondering a game situation where a
player isn't able to win by normal means. In short, they see a game is
heading towards a draw. Pondering this, I came up with an idea, which is
simplified below:
Assume that normal FIDE Chess scoring applies initially. A player would
normally score 1 point for a win and 1/2 point for a draw (none for a loss).
The idea for the tweak is that a player, if they feel that they won't
win, but game will go for a draw state, is to end up (at the end of the
turn) declare that they see this first. At this point, the scoring in the
game would be that if the player declaring this wins or draws, they get
1/2 point. If they lose the game, their opponent gets 1 1/2 points.
One can also give one player a 1/10 point advantage for a draw (their
opponent gets none), before some player declares this.
The idea here is to accommodate what is normally a draw in a game, in a way
that is interesting. I am up for discussions of any tweaks for this. An
idea I had (to complicate things) is that a player could vary what it is
worth (in 1/10 increments) for a draw.
Comments are welcomed here.
