Drawn games becoming more widespread in chess

By Errol Tiwari On In Chess with Errol |
Woman chess grandmaster 18-year-old Qiyu Zhou (pronounced Chee-you Jo), an Under-14 World Chess Champion, represented Canada at the Chess Olympiad starting from 2014. Recently, she published a study in relation to the number of draws contained in high level chess and which may be responsible for a decline in sponsorship. Zhou contends the number of draws in chess games have increased over the years. (Photo: Chessbase)
Woman chess grandmaster 18-year-old Qiyu Zhou (pronounced Chee-you Jo), an Under-14 World Chess Champion, represented Canada at the Chess Olympiad starting from 2014. Recently, she published a study in relation to the number of draws contained in high level chess and which may be responsible for a decline in sponsorship. Zhou contends the number of draws in chess games have increased over the years. (Photo: Chessbase)

We witnessed recently, a series of draws in the classical games of the World Chess Championship Match. The classical games give a player adequate thinking time. Last week, at the semi-finals of the London Chess Classic, we experienced a repeat of the draws we saw at the World Championship Match. And those draws were effected among some of the most pre-eminent grandmasters of our time.

The question is: Should a classical chess match be determined by Rapid, Blitz and Armageddon games? As we are accustomed to say in chess, something is wrong and unusually funny with such a move. I, in addition to some others, believe the classical games should provide a result in the classical format.