Article: 12229 of rec.games.chess.misc Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: Draw-offer "Etiquette" Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <325AF98C.5731@eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:38:34 GMT In article <325AF98C.5731@eos.ncsu.edu> Arren writes: >What is considered the proper etiquette on the timing of offering >draws - just before you move or just after you move?? Also, how many >offers are considered reasonable per time control ( or per x number of >moves. > > I try ( not to offer them at all! ) to offer after I move but before I >hit the clock, and I don't think I have ever made more than one offer >per game. That sounds a model of etiquette. >However, I find repeated offers of a draw by opponents >tiresome and annoying. If it really annoys you, it's distracting and the controller should be informed. Do you escalate your declines? My experience is that a second offer is always made from an inferior position, which is a rude thing to do once, let alone twice. Unless the position changes its character dramatically, I meet the second offer with: "No, and please don't ask me again", and once I got as far as a brusque "I'll let you know when and if I think it's drawn!". One might imagine a scale of refusals: "I'll think about it" (the usual down this way: they don't really think about it, they just make the next move) "Not yet" "No, thank you" "No" (piano) "No" (forte) "Of course not" [(c) R J Fischer] "No WAY" "You're joking, right?" "BWAHAHAHAHA" -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html || \_/| = DrDave on BICS ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU: ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV From info!dregis Thu Oct 10 09:06:01 BST 1996