Chess without draws

What must be changed to remove the ½-½ point draws ?

Add boxing?

Tie break in a much shorter time controls until one winner is chosen.

Or remove the stalemate rule by saying the stalemated player lost (no more moves so no way to win, make sense) and replace the triple-repetition rule by forcing the one triple repeating to either play another different move or resign.

But the best solution is to replace chess by crazyhouse altogether, I presume there is much less draw there and finally some excitation!

In chess engine competitions, games that start at the starting position are basically always draws among top engines. Instead, an opening is chosen that gives some advantage to one side or other, and then the players play two games, alternating sides. This leads to less draws.

For the fifty-move rule: After said 50 moves each player is given a pawn which they can place anywhere they like on their home rank. The player who's turn it is (after the 50 consecutive moves by each side) goes first for placing the awarded pawn. Then the other side places theirs. One caveat is one cannot put the opponent in check when placing said pawn. (This would only be possible in rare cases where the king had wandered clear across the board.) After each side has placed their pawn, play continues.

The pawn is starting one rank further back than normal. Its first move from there can be 1 or 2 squares as if that was its normal starting rank and en passant could happen. Thereafter it is again just like a normal pawn advancing one square at a time and attacking and capturing in standard fashion.

If the 50 move comes up again, repeat the above.

For the stalemate and 3 move repetition, I like @Hitsugaya 's ideas.

Without having to change the laws of chess, modernize the draws to give a ½ bonus by total efficiency of the phases.
If the regulations of an event allow a draw agreement the following could apply: (Add these articles to the present rules)

Step 1 (add 9.1.2.4) Feature needs to be preference controlled, before playing the tournament;
Results change by "Drawn analysed games" (If feature enabled or agreed by both players)

Step 2 (add 9.2.3) With drawn games only, a GM engine of site choice would assign an efficiency value for each phase.

Step 3: (add 9.3.3) The sum of the phases would give a bonus to the higher efficient player.
The result change would unbalance the present draws of the players that agreed to modernize the drawn games.

Step 4 (add 9.6.2) If during a pairing, only one player agreed or enabled the modernized drawn result, then the results remains drawn with ½-½. Drawn bonuses cannot be included if only one of the two players did not agree with the modernized change. (Default is disabled.)

Step 5 (add 10.1.1) A player would get an extra ½ point bonus to the result of a drawn game, because they played most efficiently.

This modernized feature (Bonus Points for Drawn games) would unbalance the tournament draws from ½-½ to ... 1- ½ or ½ - 1. So we could still play chess as normal, but in the end, it's the preference settings and the engine efficiency results by phase that would dictate the final results of those games.

It's my 21st Century hope, that at least Lichess could add the above modernized drawn approach to complement the FIDE Art. 9 The drawn game & Art. 10 The points. handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018

Thanks for your inputs.

I personally think draws are good. It adds an extra variable as a result and so there are more styles available in what to play with.

Chess With Draws ... Changing the rules of Chess should be considered a crime obviously . the Higher your Rating goes the more Draws will appear in your games Toscani @Toscani Happens'

No rules are changed. New rules are added. I'm aware of the increase in draws as rating increase. This is why in posted #6. I tried my best to complement something that would add to chess without removing something from it. As long as two agree to modernize chess, those two players would never have to deal with the out dated drawn scoring system.

The AI would make the final call for the final points. Something like new rules for berserk and tournaments without Berserks and so we could have games played where drawn points would no longer add up to half point each. A bye gives a full point without even having both players show up. Surely having both players show up, at least one player could end up with a full point. A perfect game can be reduced to a drawn result. Yet the game was wonderful. Since we now have engines better than humans, maybe we can include them to change the drawn scores and not the draw rules.

Didn't Bobby Fischer say something about drawn game scores? Something like draws should not count in the scoring of the match. I would not go as far as resetting the pieces and start another match. The first match existed. Pieces were lost, position and thoughts played. Let the AI's complement the draws and add an extra ½ point to conclude the game score. Adjusting the tie breaks early would be a proactive scoring system. Let's get some assistance from the engines, by making them a positive thing. Used to score drawn games.

@corvusmellori said in #4:
> In chess engine competitions, games that start at the starting position are basically always draws among top engines. Instead, an opening is chosen that gives some advantage to one side or other, and then the players play two games, alternating sides. This leads to less draws.

some have tried to categorize 960 starting positions that way.. about initial side balance...