>plenty of decisive games (84 out of 182) So the majority of games were draws. Do you really think that would be accepted without appeal to tradition? If you r

>plenty of decisive games (84 out of 182) So the majority of games were draws. Do you really think that would be accepted without appeal to tradition? If you released a new game with so many draws, people would call it broken. If a minor rule tweak can reduce the draw count without substantially changing the feel of the game, it seems to me the common sense thing to do.