Vassily Ivanchuk is on fire at the MTel Masters in Bulgaria. He has won all five of his games, which is a pretty crazy feat at a category 20 tournament. With five out of five points, his performance rating is a whopping 3537. Three thousand and friggin five hundred thirty-seven! That's just absolutely insane.
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Wow! He is having an incredible tournament. I wonder how much the unusual draw rules impact his result?
glenn - I hope the draw rules have a lot to do with it, because this is very exciting chess :)
Agreed, pre arranged draws suck ass!
Now Topalov is only one point behind with three rounds to go, if he catches Chucky I will be thoroughly impressed, Topalov has a history of winning the later rounds of a tournament.
As far as draw rules, I don't think it usually results from a pre-arranged draw I think both players just do not want to take risks and agree to stop the game. I don't know that they should be forced to take unnecessary risks as there are still exciting games at all the top level tournaments. Short draws are not exciting, but I don't think this makes them some kind of evil that must be eradicated.
Topalov keeps closing in, now he's only a half point behind, two rounds to go. I hope Ivanchuk can pull the win off.
Draws are not "evil", but the high percentage of them is a bit annoying. While some drawn games are very exciting, many are just very boring, especially if they are agreed after 10 moves.
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