Thursday, March 07, 2013

[dvpjbsqm] Elegance of penalty kicks

A soccer game ends in regulation in a tie.  For purists of the game, a tie is thus the true result.  However, if a winner must be chosen, then it might as well be a coin flip, reflecting the pointlessness of choosing a better among true equals.  Penalty kicks, so radically different from the rest of game play, are an elegant implementation of a coin flip.

Possibly applicable to chess to resolve draws, especially drawn matches, with blitz.

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