Ganguly beats Shankland in match with Venceslav Rutar’s scoring system

Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated Sam Shankland in their 8-game online match with the unique scoring system devised by Venceslav Rutar – which changes the scoring of draws into three categories based on the material disparity. Surya won the match by a 26-11 score, after grabbing 5 wins. Shankland collected 1 win, and 3 games ended in ‘equal draws’. While there were no ‘favoured’ nor ‘unfavoured’ draws in the match, the format advocated for fighting chess as we got to see so many interesting games.