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Joseph Blackburne vs Johannes Zukertort
London (1883), London ENG, rd 6, May-04
Italian Game: Classical Variation. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-14-05
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  offramp: It seems as if Blackburne was happy with a draw. This was Zukertort's first draw, but draws meant that the games had to be replayed, and Zukertort won the replay.
Jan-14-05  cuendillar: If I don't remember wrong, the first game counted too, making the result in this game .75-.25 in Zukertorts favour. If second game had been drawn too, score would have been ½-½ with no replays.

Would this system increase or decrease the drawish tendency in modern chess?

Jan-14-05  drukenknight: I dont think so, you can still find tournaments were the guy who won had more draws than the runner up. Say player one has: 1 win, 6 draws, 0 losses; and the other guy had like 2 wins, 3 losses, and 2 draws.

If you were to weight wins as 3 pts and draw as 1 pt; the guy w/ 6 draws would still win the tournament! So where is the incentive to play for win for guy number one? The guy w/ two wins, had 5 decisive games but still scores lower than the guy w/ 1 decisive game.

Same problem remains, there will always be draws. Maybe the game is designed this way??

Jan-17-05  InspiredByMorphy: <drukenknight> Someone once said "what would chess be without mistakes?" . Another person said "With best play from both sides until the end of the game the result should be a draw." Draws are highly underrated it seems. They have a lot of educational value.
Jan-18-05  drukenknight: IBM: I cannot argue with this.
Feb-23-07
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  Pawn and Two: In this tournament draws had to be replayed twice. If the third game was also a draw, then 1/2 point would be scored for each player. As Zukertort won the replay, he scored a full point and Blackburne scored 0. Zukertort also won his game against Blackburne in the 2nd half of this double round tournament.

The double replay rule caused some unusual results. In this double round tournament of 14 players, Rev. Skipworth played 28 games, while Englisch and Rosenthal each played 45!

In the pairing Englisch vs Mackenzie, 6 drawn games were played before their games were scored as draws.

Jan-19-14  dernier thylacine: To Pawn and Two: just about the number of Skipworth's games: let's not forget that he could not participate in the second half of the tournament because of sickness...

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