GREG KENNEDY STRIKES OUT AGAIN

Or... we could only have Swiss tourneys with an
*even* number of rounds, so that everybody gets
the same number of Whites and Blacks. -- help bot

David Kane falsely claimed the rematch clause is no advantage to
the champion.
But here is what Mikhail Tal wrote after losing the title back to
Mikhail Botvinnik, who exercised the clause in 1961: "I often have to
answer a ticklish question: what do you think of return matches? As it
happened the honour of 'closing this page of the FIDE' fell to my lot.
What would it have cost the International Chess Federation to take
the decision to abolish return matches a year earlier?!"

Now Greg overlooks that an even number of rounds in a Swiss does
NOT mean equal colors for everyone. If two leaders both have 3 whites
and 2 blacks going into the last round of a six-round Swiss, one of
them will end up with 4 whites and 2 blacks.

And so it goes.





help bot wrote:
On Apr 25, 1:11 am, "J.D. Walker" wrote:

On second thought, the Swiss system has an inherent defect of
inequitable distribution of colors. A system which attempts to balance
the first move advantage of White through a scoring edge for Black
should help to correct this Swiss system problem.


Or... we could only have Swiss tourneys with an
*even* number of rounds, so that everybody gets
the same number of Whites and Blacks.


-- help bot