George Duke wrote on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 03:19 PM UTC:
Hi Rich. That scoring suggestion is no more radical than Lasker proposed
almost 100 yrs. ago. When standard chess becomes 8x10 or 10x10, the Draw
problem should be revisited in advance. There are many other solutions than
scoring tweak. How about one, where after 40 moves, players can mutually
agree to the Counter-Draw phase. That could mean from move 41 on, any
non-captured piece may be dropped from forward position to back rank
vacancy, in lieu of a move. Or then after that, Draw phase II would promote
Pawns remaining to Amazon for Move 51 on; and so on for other proposals
that would be understandable to regular gms. The object is decisive game either 1-0 or 0-1.