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I know how to play chess, and I enjoy it. I was surprised by your post, so I decided to look up the rules of chess.

The rules of a draw in chess - link

It's quite interesting that there are rules according to which a draw is declared even if someone doesn't agree.
And in these rules, there is such a paragraph: Players agreed to a draw (a draw by mutual consent), that is, one of the players offered a draw during their turn, and the other accepted it. To offer a draw, it is enough to say "draw." If the opponent makes a move without responding to the offer of a draw, it is considered rejected. Recently, some tournaments have adopted the so-called "Sofia Rules," which limit the possibility of players agreeing to a draw.

It seems that in chess, not everything is so straightforward.

Sofia Rules - link.

This is exactly the position I tried to establish when developing the OFB regulations.
I considered a draw as a rare way to end a game in OFB, and not as a way to score points in a tournament.
I think the key word in the highlighted phrase is "in some." And in the link, at the very end, there is criticism of this approach, stating that it is only a treatment of symptoms. To avoid draws, you need to play Olympic or Double Illumination; in any case, even in a drawn game, you will have to play another game with a winning result for someone.
And in a Swiss tournament, it is simply logical for people who are satisfied with a draw after the previous games not to flip a coin, which is what happens in the vast majority of chess tournaments, as far as I know.

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