[Retros] reward for stalemate

[Kevin Begley]

Whether or not you agree with GM Short's solution, is of no consolation,
here.
The point is:  FIDE (a game federation) owns the FIDE rule book, and they
may do what they like with it, for the purposes of serving their own unique
charter.

They have no cause to be concerned how it affects a chess problem
community.
Chess problems predate their game, and should never have been impacted by
it.




On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Buchanan <andrew at anselan.com> wrote:

> Ø  The stalemating player would win the full point.
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> That’s the way it works in Chinese Chess.
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> I think stalemate is a brilliant rule, giving a subtle resource to the
> losing player. Removing it might even make the game much duller, as players
> try to smother one another from the late middle-game onwards, rather than
> take the risk to attack the opponent’s king. I think that Chess 960 is a
> much better innovation, and can imagine it becoming the standard in a
> generation or so.
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> By the way, there is here in Hong Kong a very small number of “street
> problemists” who earn money by posing tricksy studies in Chinese Chess to
> passers-by. Perhaps HK$20 is at stake in such a match. I have only seen
> this myself once, but if there is a next time, I will try to photograph the
> composition (compensating the composer suitably) and present it here. I
> don’t think there are any “street retro-analysts”, however.
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> All the best,
> Andrew.
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> *From:* Retros [mailto:retros-bounces at janko.at] *On Behalf Of *Kevin
> Begley
> *Sent:* 13 June 2014 00:11
> *To:* The Retrograde Analysis Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Retros] The basics of the relationsship between laws and
> conventions
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> The stalemating player would win the full point.
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> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Seth <sethb at panix.com> wrote:
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> Kevin Begley <kevinjbegley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > GM Nigel Short asserted that a stalemated player SHOULD earn no
> half-point
> > (that, for the purpose of improving chess game tournaments, the
> stalemated
> > player should be treated equivalent to the checkmated player,
>
> What would the stalemating player get?  If 0.5 points, game theory says
> the player about to be stalemated should pay off the other player to
> agree to a draw.
>
> Seth
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