Crestbook

GM Sergey Shipov's article initially published in Crestbook's Russian section is now available in English at the premier chess site ChessBase:

Chess as a sport and the three-point system

In this article Crestbook's editor-in-chief analyses Rustam Kasimdzhanov's recent idea for getting rid of the drawn result in chess and discusses a new scoring system allowing for increasing the number of decisive games in tournaments and stimulating fighting play.