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Exactly how can you identify the DMD?? |
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Franklin Campbell |
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Feb 13, 07 - 8:24 PM |
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Hi Dave,
My understanding is that obtaining qualified adjudicators is extremely difficult. Perhaps your idea has some merit.
One problem of many proposals for solving the DMD is that they require the work of volunteers, and volunteers don't grow on trees. I like giving some extra authority to the TD instead of looking for yet another volunteer worker. The TD can seek additional help, if needed. In the case of claims of a forced draw I would think most TDs would be highly qualified to judge.
I don't consider the game over when one player obtains a "won game". It's been said that it can be very difficult winning a "won game". I don't think this should be removed from the game. The DMD isn't about requiring your opponent to demonstrate he can win a "won game". Rather, it is about needlessly prolonging a hopeless game and punishing your opponent for beating you by making him wait ... and wait ... and wait.
Probably something would have been done in ICCF rules to reduce occurrences of the DMD it it was always easy to recognize it. This is why I suggest taking a first step by allowing games with a forced mate to be adjudicated immediately, upon request by the winning party. Once this first step has been accpeted, perhaps we can find a method to expand our battle against the DMD in other ways. Certainly, if we had a collection of 2400 adjudicators to call upon they could easily handle the issue of confirming claims of forced checkmates.
-- Franklin |
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