Scoring

The Scoring specifies the earning that a player gets for a game. The three numbers are the yieldings for win, draw, and loss.

The most straightforward approach is to give one point for a win and half a point for a draws and nothing for a loss as it is done in FIDE chess. To impede unplayed draws many tournament rules introduce a drawing penalty. There is no coherent procedure to determine a reasonable drawing penalty and it depends much on a matter of taste.

ISF-Stratego changed the scoring some years ago to 6 3 1. It may turn up strange to give a point for a loss. The primary reason for it was motivation: You cannot lose! Technically however 6 3 1, 5 2 0, and 1 0.4 0 are equivalent and result in a drawing penalty of 0.1.