Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

[Ben Daswani]

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[Lucas Davies]

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[QUOTE=Paul Bonham;57525]

You're going to use Google search results to back you up? HAHAHAHAHAHA! That's the Spirit of the Age! The Dumbed Down Age!

All of your examples can be taken as "all people" or "all young people". In fact, that is the way MOST PEOPLE would take it.

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN, MEAN WHAT YOU SAY.

Well, this is clearly pointless.

[Vlad Drkulec]

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[QUOTE=Lucas Davies;57528]

Well, this is clearly pointless.

We must all come to this conclusion sooner or later.



“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

[David Ottosen]

Re: Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

This whole thread reminds me of:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_snss6u0-WR...s-argument.jpg

[Mathieu Cloutier]

Re: Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

This whole thread reminds me of:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_snss6u0-WR...s-argument.jpg

Or:

http://xkcd.com/386/

Mathieu

[Jordan S. Berson]

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...your average casual viewer doesn't understand whether or not the guy on the screen should play KKT3 with one suit in Omaha 8, so he doesn't watch.

David,

It's only because I like you that I'm replying with this little sarcastic nitpick...

I have played Omaha 8 many times in HORSE tournaments, but I also have no clue whether to play a hand with suited kings :D

Jordan

[David Ottosen]

Re: Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

David,

It's only because I like you that I'm replying with this little sarcastic nitpick...

I have played Omaha 8 many times in HORSE tournaments, but I also have no clue whether to play a hand with suited kings :D

Jordan

Best rule to remember in Omaha 8: If you have an eight in your hand fold. If you don't have an ace in your hand, fold. A hand like KKT3 with one suit is one of those "maybe in late position if everyone folds and the blinds are tight" type hands.

[Jordan S. Berson]

Re: Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

A hand like KKT3 with one suit...

David,

The point I was trying to make was: How do you get a pair in a one-suited hand?

Jordan

[Tom O'Donnell]

Re: Making Draws in Chess Very Rare

In Omaha a one-suited hand is a hand which contains at least two cards of the same suit, and only one suit. So for example AcKc5d2h is a one-suited hand, but something like AcKcKhQh is a double-suited hand while AcKdQhJs is a rainbow hand. It matters in Omaha because exactly two cards from your hand always play and therefore you cannot make a flush unless you have at least two cards of the same suit in your hand.

[Jack Maguire]

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There is another way - walk on the edge like Tal, Shirov, Topalov. Kasparov

Three more of today's top attacking players who like to walk on the edge are Nakamura, Mamedyarov, and Morozevich, currently ranked numbers 8, 10, and 11 in the world respectively.

It's always interesting when one great attacker faces another since blood is almost always spilled. Case in point, Mamedyarov and Nakamura met yesterday in London and in 10 career matches now there have only been 2 draws. Shakh has a +3 -2 =2 edge in classical play while Nak has a +2 -1 =0 advantage in rapid/blitz.

Their game was the game of the day at ChessBase and I loved the preamble to the annotations:

Mamedyarov and Nakamura are two players that have been featured a lot in the game of the days of this tournament. The reason is simple: some players play more interesting chess than others. And when they clash, usually something exciting will happen

[Bindi Cheng]

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Hmm I dunno about you, but I thought Nakamura got owned

[Kevin Pacey]

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From what I've seen of some players (e.g. Ljubojevic (sp?) in his heyday), they might play sharp, combative chess a lot of the time, but at times play like tourists (i.e. draw just about every game they play in an event, especially away from their home town).

[Jack Maguire]

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Hmm I dunno about you, but I thought Nakamura got owned

Ya, Shakh was clearly better than Nak yesterday. And Nakamura is going for the wrong kind of 'hat trick' today in London. After getting owned by his nemesis, Wang Hao, in R6, succumbing to the Shakh Attack in R7, he's in huge trouble against Chucky in R8.

[Jordan S. Berson]

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Tom,

Thank you for explaining it... I forgot that the number of suits has to do with how many suits play, not how many suits are in the hole cards. I haven't played poker since Black Friday.

Thanks, Jordan

[David Ottosen]

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Tom,

Thank you for explaining it... I forgot that the number of suits has to do with how many suits play, not how many suits are in the hole cards. I haven't played poker since Black Friday.

Thanks, Jordan

Maybe you would play more if after the turn, you could resurrect a card from the muck?