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This is a good point in that it means players could have collaborated to deliberately achieve an arbitrarily long game (and indeed, in some of the long reported
by schoen 9y ago
This is a good point in that it means players could have collaborated to deliberately achieve an arbitrarily long game (and indeed, in some of the long reported games it looks like nobody chose to claim a draw for a while). I guess such collaboration isn't sportsmanlike in a competitive setting, but it wouldn't have been precluded by the rules.
Thanks for that clarification.
- sanderjd 9y agoAt the highest levels it probably does imply collaboration, but where I play at (much) lower levels, I might very reasonably choose not to take a draw because I think my opponent is likely to make a mistake that will result in a win for me. My opponent may reasonably think the same about me.