I propose that there be no more than 2 draw offers in any USCF/FIDE rated game. Please discuss :mrgreen:
I’ve moved this topic from All Things Chess to Running Chess Tournaments.
My initial reaction is that I’m against the proposed rule but I think it would be allowable as a major variation which must be announced in advance publicity. It probably wouldn’t reduce the number of draws but it could needlessly prolong the game after two draw offers had been made. It would be hard for the director/arbiter to know how many draw offers had been made, especially if the players stopped keeping score, so it would be difficult to enforce.
What’s the motivation for this proposed rule?
Maybe: A maximum of two draw offers by a player without an intervening draw offer by his opponent.
My preferred solution: play so badly that the opponent won’t think of offering a draw once, let alone twice.
I don’t need a rule to play that badly. 
That would make more sense, and I don’t think a rule like that would need to be advertised in pre-tournament publicity. It formalizes what is already standard practice: that multiple draw offers by a player without a substantial change in the position is considered to be disturbing the opponent.
An addendum: No draw offer may be made while being in a totally lost position. This seems to be a common practice in scholastic games. Multiple draw offers are made by players who are either down a queen or in the process of being checkmated.
And for the very reason that a rule against annoying the opponent already exists in both USCF and FIDE rules, the proposed rule is unnecessary.
Just because a rule is unnecessary is no reason to think it won’t be adopted at some point in the future to confuse the interpretation of one or more other rules. 
Story time…only vaguely related…but eh, so timely.
Colorado Quick Championship last Friday. G/10 d/2. Tactics Time! co-author Tim Brennan fights back in his game to reach a bare K+R vs K+R ending. Plenty of time for both sides but the opponent inexplicably continues to play on trying for tricks or a time win. Tim offers multiple draws which are all rejected when the opponent continues to move.
There shouldn’t have to be multiple offers. The draw is obvious. So maybe you see this coming.
Opponent leaves his rook near the center of the board and loses his board vision for a few moves. Meanwhile Tim’s king has made contact with the dastardly rook. Tim checks his opponent’s king from its protective duties and snaps off the evil rook. I bet you cringe at what you know is coming next given the context.
Opponent offers a draw hoping for sympathy or something. Tim’s look of disgust and response was instantaneous: “Hell no, draw is not on the table,” and proceeds to demonstrate a basic K+R checkmate. Again, context…the tournament hall was nearing the end of the Quick round and I could hear his reply quite clearly.
Tim is one of the nicest guys in Colorado. As far as I’m concerned it was the perfect reply. Of course two rounds later the opponent drops out of the final round of the tournament without informing director ANTD Buck Buchanan. However the subsequent issues with an ear of corn and mixed up boards is a different story.