No, that's the point: The game continues until a player reaches 6 wins. If you're 5-0 down, you can either resign or play for 6 wins. Draws don't help you.

But if you keep forcing draws, it doesn't let your opponent reach 6 wins.

Sure, but it can't be your strategy, since then you can never win either.

A draw is half a point. So with first to 6.5, you win the match if you have one game win and 11 draws.

I'm talking about first to 6 wins. Like the 1984 Karpov vs. Kasparov: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015

Ah, of course. Sorry for the mistake.

What if you just have 13 draws? If you award any kind of points for draws, it seems like you're back to people aiming to draw.