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Topic
#5416
THBT: Offense is more suitable than defense in Speed Chess.
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 3 votes and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...
Hero_In_Instatute
Judges

RationalMadman
574 debates /
861 votes
No vote

whiteflame
27 debates /
206 votes
Voted

Benjamin
98 debates /
50 votes
Voted

Best.Korea
403 debates /
91 votes
Voted

AustinL0926
33 debates /
25 votes
No vote
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- Three days
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- Two weeks
- Point system
- Winner selection
- Voting system
- Judges
1500
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Description
For clarification, the scope of this debate will be focusing on blitz chess, where the time controls are five minutes for both players.
There is bullet and lightning chess, but I'd rather focus on blitz to give Con more room to argue their point.
By suitable, I shall be required to defend that blitz chess is more mechanically designed for players with a mostly aggressive or offensive style.
The way I see it, there is no way Con can win this anyway, since you cannot win in chess with just defense, but you can win with just offense.
Anyway, I think a more suitable topic would be "In chess, you should focus more on offense than defense", which is more fair towards Con and at least gives him some fighting chance, as current topic cannot even be disproved.
At least one piece of CON's cited information is clearly hallucinated in R1.
Here is game 16 of the 1985 World Championship match. It wasn't a draw, nor was it the Petroff Defense:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067175
I don't consider this judge intervention because fake evidence deserved to be called out. Do what you will with it.
Noted
I can't promise that it won't be a factor, but if you choose to allow it, I'll at least consider the points.
if it's an option, i'd prefer the judges make an exception for my opponent just this once.
i don't have a problem with him using ai-generated arguments the entire debate if he needs to.
I realized it as AI as soon as I saw the first sentence, lol. No one writes a serious argument like that.
Yeah... suffice it to say that anything you post that is AI generated won't put you ahead in this debate. Particularly if you fail to cite it and treat it as though you wrote it, it might also be reason enough for me to award conduct if this was being judged under the 7-point system.
And I am terribly biased towards offense, by the way.
I dont know how to vote on AI being used, as I have nothing against it personally, but its arguments dont seem to be that strong right now.
Don't use AI-generated text, prefarably ever, but if you must, make sure to make that clear, don't post it as if you wrote it yourself.
https://i.imgur.com/bh4epoq.png
https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector
https://i.imgur.com/hlBNcCp.png
https://copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector
any takers???
I would've if you tagged me :{
Look at my recently finished debates you didn't vote on one that you could have.
There is already one to vote on.
A chess debate, awesome