I just learned about a rule they have in professional shogi to guarantee a decisive result in every game.
Drawn positions are far less common in shogi than chess, but they can still happen. A draw arises in about 5% of professional matches. When this happens, do they sigh and mark down 1/2 - 1/2 and go about their day? No! They reset the board, swap colors, and play another game... without resetting the clocks!
Essentially, every professional game has a rapid tie-break built in. If you are "white" in the first game, you'd better be playing for a win, or you will find yourself having to defend as "black" with a lot less time on your clock.
I know there's zero chance of this being adopted in chess, but I thought it was an interesting way to solve the "draw problem".
I think Carlsen was advocating for the world chess championship to be a mixture of classical and rapid games recently. Doubtful that it will happen, but it's an interesting idea for sure.
Source:
en.chessbase.com/post/world-championship-2021-g3(Search for "mix of classical and rapid" to find spot)
Shogi is WAY different from chess. Basically almost every endgame is a race to who has the most loose castle and who is the first one to checkmate the opponent and remember that stalemate is a win, there is no 50 move rule and perpetual check is illegal. Only two ways to make a draw are by repeating the same position (INCLUDING THE PIECES IN HAND) 4 times, the second one is by having both kings in a non checkmatable position (opposing camp and surrounded by friendly pieces since shogi pieces are meant to attack forward, so attacking in own camp is hella hard).
Basically the rule of playing another game is because drawing is so rare and difficult to pull off you are not very likely to see two times in a row.
And in go, black moves first, but white gets 5.5 points as a compensation to add to their score at the end of the game.
You cannot get half a point during the game, so one side is guaranteed to lose at least by .5.
While im ok with go, as white gets some compensation for moving second, i dont know about shogi. But playing black in chess, specially against someone that wont let go the initiative its ruthless. According to what we know so far about the game, it looks like its a draw with perfect play in both sides, and black probably has to play d the whole game with no real chances.
So if you force them to win somehow, like in time odds, you put a lot of stress on white to win, on a drawish game. Im not sure time is enough compensation. Material or a free tempo is more tangible. But chess is a game of tempos, a free tempo somewhere in the game will lead to an unstoppable attack, and a free pawn for instance, will destroy an set up you make.
The games are different, and they should have different set of rules. Im fine with draws. You shouldnt be punished when both sides nullified eachother.
I find this idea very interesting.
If I understand you correctly, you mean, that lets say they draw after move 54 by a repetition, then they stop the clock and then start a new game from move 55 immediately (or after a small break)
Applied to this WC, they would then get 15 minutes increment after they play the moves 55 to 60 in the second game. Because of the 30 sec increment after move 60 the second game can also very likely end in a draw which will lead to (maybe a lot) more games with 30 second increment per move, where the players have eventually only a few minutes left on the clock.
So the disadvantage would be that every game can take quite a lot of time until one player actually wins. But you can avoid that by reducing the overall time of the match from 2 hours to lets say 90 minutes or even less. Additionally you should reconsider the time added after certain moves. For example you get additional time after move 60, 80, 100 and so on with less increment per move (instead of 30 seconds maybe only 10)
Another disadvantage would be that most of the games would basically be decided in "Blitz" or "Rapid", so it would not really be a Classical Worldchampionship anymore, but it would still depend on the classical match a lot, because lets say Black uses a lot of time in the first game and hardly achieves a draw with only a few minutes left on the clock whereas white has still over one hour, then even if he has white in the second game, he will have huge time problems and will so eventually lose.
