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What percentage of your blitz games end in draws? I just checked my stats and over my hundreds of blitz games only about 5% of them end in draws. I checked th
by birken 7y ago
What percentage of your blitz games end in draws? I just checked my stats and over my hundreds of blitz games only about 5% of them end in draws. I checked the stats of some friends who are both better and worse than me and all of them were around 5% draws.
I fully appreciate the idea of wanting to play more aggressive lines to get a different style of game, but I don't think it is necessary by any stretch if you are looking to get decisive games.
- rectang 7y ago2.45% of my blitz games end in draws. Playing a weak, non-standard opening is surely not the only way to get interesting games, but it's reliable and easy for someone of my skill level (around 1850 on blitz.chessbase.com). It's much more reliable than playing any well-known gambit, for example. This article starts off with an appreciation of the King's Gambit. However, there are many known lines which counter the King's gambit and bring it back into a boring, drawish middle game. Chess is unfortunately a game that rewards people who play to avoid losing rather than play to win.
- njarboe 7y agoTournament chess could change this style by counting wins as more than twice a draw (say 1.5) but where a loss is still 0.
- billforsternz 7y agoYour idea is normally implemented as football scoring (so 0 points for a loss, 1 point for a draw, 3 points for a win). It has been tried (with limited success if I remember correctly) in top tournament chess. On mobile and reluctant to try and track down the details of when and where.
- komaromy 7y agoThe Bilbao Chess Masters [0] used a 3-1-0 scoring format. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao_Chess_Masters_Final https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao_Chess_Masters_Final