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Amazing!
Did they receive coaching from Kramnik and Leko ?
all chess games should end with a winner and a loser.
You’re a moron. She had the best overall performance in the entire Women’s Olympiad.
I’ve followed some of the competition in Italy and it seems like there are fewer short “grandmaster” draws in the chess olympics as there are in major tournaments. It would be interesting to do an analysis of this Olympiad and the incidence of short, non-competitive draws. I am wondering also why we equate only wins and losses with “fighting spirit.” Why can there not be hard fought games that end in draws because both players rise to the occasion and handle the challenges placed before them? Sure, I like to see decisive games, but a well-played draw can be exciting and very edifying, too.
Please, Jacques, no need to call names, even if you are right and your opponent is wrong.
You are right that Susan had the highest performance in the 2004 Olympiad, but that is measured by performance rating not, for example, by percent wins.
If you go to the tournament site, here: http://www.olimpbase.org/2004w/2004id01.html
you will see that Susan did indeed have 7 wins and 7 draws.
I think that reasonable people can accept that, sometimes, a draw is the most fitting result.
OK, that URL was truncated. Let’s try again. You’ll have to piece it back together:
http://www.olimpbase.org/2004w
/2004id01.html
A draw is about as exciting as a Texas double Whopper from Burger King. Boring.