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Old 11-28-2006, 06:14 PM
Post-Oak Post-Oak is offline
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Default Re: Bad Beat in Chess?

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He has no financial incentive to draw the match?

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No, he only gets more if he wins outright.

That was the only rule which worried me a bit; the thought that he would be taking risks in order to snag a win, rather than go for a draw. That hasn't really seemed to happen though, considering he was white in the first game and supposedly played in a way in which he had no chance to lose, with a slight chance to win. I'm not equipped to analyze a high level chess game, but the analysis of the experts was that he played in such a manner.

Oh, they are actually paying him in USD, not Euros.
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