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 in Azerbaijan SSSR” (1961) magazine and in a contest to A.Kubbel; Khachaturov – the 1st place in thematic contest of moremoves (1973); e.Yusupov – he 1st place in a contest of the Roman magazine “Revista Romine de shah (1976); Rauf Adigozalzade and Vahidov (twomovers) – the 1st place in international contests of “Student” newspaper (Yugoslavia; 1979–1980) and others; A.Zygalov – the 1st place in international contests of “Tem-64” (France;1979) magazine and in Hungary (1982). The first chess books – “Iqra v shahmati” (Chess game) (1982) and “Nachalniy kurs shahmatnoy iqri”(Essentials of chess game) (1932) by R.Safarova. “Course of chess lections” M.Eyve (1936)