First-move advantage in chess draw given best play prevails. Even if it cannot be proved, this assumption is considered "safe" by Rowson and "logical" by Adorján. Watson agrees that "the proper result of a perfectly played chess game ... is a draw. ... Of course, I can't prove this, but I doubt that you can find a single strong player who would disagree. ... I remember Kasparov, after a last-round draw, explaining to the waiting reporters: 'Well, chess is a draw. World Champion Bobby Fischer thought that "it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically". Similarly, British grandmaster Nigel Short wrote that
Chess game collection format. Chess game collections can be categorized by: 1. OTB (Over the board) 2. Correspondence 3. Online played games 4. Engines vs engine 5. Engine vs human 6. Puzzles 7. mid games 8. endgames Chess game collection The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. "My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937" by Alexander Alekhine), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time (e.g. "Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games. Vol.1 1485-1866" by Levy and O'Connell), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or