Re: "Kasparov Retails Title on a Draw": Does this headline do

On Apr 22, 2:53 pm, help bot <nomorech...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 8:25 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > 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?
>
>   I don't need to have anything; this is not about me--
> it's about the ploys people come up with in order to
> *justify* giving the champ an unfair advantage over the
> challenger.

I wasn't trying to get *personal*. I didn't think that the need to
book a hall for a fixed amount of time was irrelevant to having to
arrange the World Champion****p match so that it takes a fixed amount
of time - and thus involves a fixed number of games.

>   Lost in La-la land?  The issue was whether or not
> the champion ought to have an unfair advantage--
> namely draw odds.  The correct procedure is to
> first answer that "question", and only then worry
> over the trivial (or non-trivial) details.

If the "detail" makes the vast majority of proposed solutions
impossible, then it settles the question of applying those solutions.

John Savard