Quadibloc wrote:
On Apr 21, 11:36 am, help bot wrote:
On Apr 21, 1:05 am, " wrote:

In 1987 he barely saved his title against Karpov on a
12-12 tie. Kasparov gave two reasons for sticking
with this system at a symposium we both attended in
Madrid:
1. Since he had to overcome draw odds when he was the underdog, he
saw no reason why the challenger shouldn’t have to vault the same
obstacle.
The infamous "two wrongs make a right" fallacy.

I'm with you here.

2. Organizers must have a definite budget and solid dates when they
book a playing hall, which isn’t possible in an open-ended match.
Change of subject ploy.

Oh, really? You have a scheme whereby the World Champion and a
challenger can play exactly 24 games, and it is guaranteed that each
one won't win the same number of games out of those 24?

Oh, wait. It isn't impossible to have a definite result from a fixed-
length match; even I can think of a scheme. Assuming that all 24 games
are not drawn - in *that* case, they can just book another playing
hall, and it had better be a cheap one, because who will be interested
enough to come and watch - then the person who won the *last* game
loses, on the basis that the other player was ahead over the largest
number of games.

The champion would have the advantage of playing White in the first
game.

John Savard

One possibility of ensuring more decisive match results would be to
change the way draws are scored. I like the idea of giving White .45 of
the point and Black .55 of the point. Mathematicians might come up with
a better way to split the point. A drawn 24 game match would seem to be
much more unlikely with this idea.

If players can get used to decimal results as opposed to whole number
results it should work fine in tournaments also. We can do it. Look at
how we adapted to the metric system! Oops, I forgot, we didn't.

Another aspect of this: it would shift opening theory in an interesting
way. Lines that were dubious before might become more reasonable. It
would certainly encourage White to avoid drawing lines. Some players of
Black might become specialists in drawing lines with that color.

Finally, it would be delightful to screw up all the computers for
awhile. They would eventually adjust ...
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"Do that which is right..."

Rev. J.D. Walker