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Old April 23rd 08, 03:10 AM posted to rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.politics
Quadibloc
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Default "Kasparov Retails Title on a Draw": Does this headline doanything to increase interest in chess?

On Apr 22, 7:35 pm, help bot wrote:
If you can show that the *best*
solution requires exactly 24 games,


No, I can't do that.

and also
that a championship match requires a fixed
length, then by all means, do so.


I thought that Kasparov _did_ do that, and you said he was changing
the topic.

I understand that it would be better if the World Championship were
absolutely fair. But that requires either excluding ties, or having a
possible result of two co-champions. If both are impractical, then
living with a little unfairness seems not unreasonable.

If the unfairness can be reduced to a mere sliver, though, that would
be good, and I had a couple of ideas for that.

John Savard
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