I do appreciate you trying to clarify your position. I don't have a huge amount of experience here, but people seem to value 1) politeness and 2) correct infor

I do appreciate you trying to clarify your position. I don't have a huge amount of experience here, but people seem to value 1) politeness and 2) correct information. I haven't talked to the people who downvoted you obviously (and in case you didn't know, you can't downvote a direct reply, so it wasn't me). But to me the first reply sort of came off as, "chess sux0rz, just play go". Go is of course a very nice game, but it's very different than chess; seeming to show disdain for all the people who like to play chess and watch chess played fails somewhat on the "politeness" front. The second reply didn't really articulate well your position, so seemed to be just "repeating the mistake" from the first post, and so failed (it seemed) on the "correctness" front. I think if your first reply had been more like the previous reply in this thread -- asking whether there actually were fewer draws, and whether the gameplay was actually more "dynamic" or was simply "different" -- or perhaps adding in your take on games played that way; say from the recent exhibition in London, or from analyses of AlphaZero games played under these rules (e.g. [1]) -- it would have been seen more as a contribution than a detraction. That's my guess anyway. :-) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqmLYlFdBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqmLYlFdBo