Answers.Body: <p>The criteria used for tiebreaks is indicated prior to the tournament and figures in the tournament's reglementation that is supposed to be available to all participants.</p>
  <p>There are many systems used for breaking ties : cumulative score, score of opponents calculated in various fashions (Buchholz, Sonnenborg-Berger...), rating perfomance, and one of them is the number of wins. I assume the tournaments you played used the number of wins.</p>
  <p>No tie-breaking system is perfect and debates about which is the better are endless. The rationale behind using the number of wins is to reward more entertaining play (which might result in +1 -1 rather than =2) and (slightly) discourage non-combative draws. This was especially thought to be a nice idea at a time when (high-level) chess was plagued with too many draws.</p>
  <p>One of the consequences is the attribution of the 1988 World Junior Champion title to Joel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABl_Lautier" rel="noreferrer">Lautier</a> in front of Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Serper who had scored as many points but less wins.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: ok it rewards more entertaining games but it doesnt say anything about the strength of a player.So players who like positional chess more(like myself) and draw more are worse than players who like sharp full of tactics games?I mean not losing is as good as a ability with winning...
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Answers.Text: @Cerise Winning is better under these rulesets so you should either change your playstyle or try to find tournaments that use your preferred scoring systems. If you can't find any that play that style, you may need to start your own (assuming others are interested).
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Body: <p>When I play chess tournaments and I have 5/2/2 in the tiebreaks I always lose to players with 6/3/0. So why is a win better than 2 draws? Which is the logic behind it?</p>
  
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Title: Why is a win better than 2 draws in the tiebreaks
ThreadText: # Why is a win better than 2 draws in the tiebreaks
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-08-25)
  
  When I play chess tournaments and I have 5/2/2 in the tiebreaks I always lose to players with 6/3/0. So why is a win better than 2 draws? Which is the logic behind it?
  
  **Tags:** tournament, draw, winning, tie-breaks
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-08-25. Score: 7
  
  The criteria used for tiebreaks is indicated prior to the tournament and figures in the tournament's reglementation that is supposed to be available to all participants.
  
  There are many systems used for breaking ties : cumulative score, score of opponents calculated in various fashions (Buchholz, Sonnenborg-Berger...), rating perfomance, and one of them is the number of wins. I assume the tournaments you played used the number of wins.
  
  No tie-breaking system is perfect and debates about which is the better are endless. The rationale behind using the number of wins is to reward more entertaining play (which might result in +1 -1 rather than =2) and (slightly) discourage non-combative draws. This was especially thought to be a nice idea at a time when (high-level) chess was plagued with too many draws.
  
  One of the consequences is the attribution of the 1988 World Junior Champion title to Joel [Lautier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABl_Lautier) in front of Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Serper who had scored as many points but less wins.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: ok it rewards more entertaining games but it doesnt say anything about the strength of a player.So players who like positional chess more(like myself) and draw more are worse than players who like sharp full of tactics games?I mean not losing is as good as a ability with winning...  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 Winning is better under these rulesets so you should either change your playstyle or try to find tournaments that use your preferred scoring systems. If you can't find any that play that style, you may need to start your own (assuming others are interested).  
  
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