Boris Gelfand defending his decision to offer a draw against Svidler
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Boris Gelfand discusses draw issue
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Boris Gelfand defending his decision to offer a draw against Svidler
The Milton-Bradly company game Stratego suffers greatly from the problem that he who attacks first usually loses.
Chess does not have this problem generally.
But Gelfand seems to say here that each player would have to weaken his position too much to undertake any attack, in this particular position.
Some drawn positions are like that in chess.
The man is in second place – “You go Gelfand!”
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