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Draws have to be lesser issue even in regular played-out Mad Queen. It is
GMs' problem not ours. I still personally place Computer problem at the
top. Actually, toward opposite goal of increasing Draw possibilities, Draws could have the same number of variants -- millions -- as CVs themselves. Draw by agreement, 3-fold repetition, 50-Move no pawn
move or capture, insufficient material. Draw by Stalemate, Bare King. Draw by reaching set number of moves: 100, 80, 125, 75. Draw by (and here the
new variants come in, to dodge or postpone other issues, keeping our
comfort zones of wild imagination sans action): (1) time control
parameters, e.g. 4 hours becomes a Draw (2) repetition of opening
repertoire, say 20 moves and over having been played by others before (3)
lack of beauty, i.e. uninteresting lines determined by judge-panel at move 20 (4) Instead of being prohibited, Mures' Braves' point two permits
achieving Draw by placing King a Knight's move away from King. (There follows our regular more-thought-out blog-Comment.)