> because he does better where it matters; time pressure. Not at all. Both of these guys would handily beat me and pretty much any other player quite easily i

> because he does better where it matters; time pressure. Not at all. Both of these guys would handily beat me and pretty much any other player quite easily in standard time controls. Time pressure was only a factor here because there's public pressure to name someone as the champion. In the vast majority of all tournaments, ties are left as ties. In the event there is a prize that can't be split (e.g. a title or a trophy) there are a series of tiebreak rules that don't involve playing any more games. The USCF rulebook lists the methods and priority that they are to be used, the FIDE rulebook gives several options which are to be announced in advance [1]. [1] https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=187&view=article https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=187&view=article