Re: "Kasparov Retains Title on a Draw":

Rich Hutnik <richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> How many organized s****ts have players playing 24 games?  And, let's
> get real here people, when you start to introduce time controls to
> chess, having titles, awarding points, Chess becomes a s****t.

Well, I'm not sure that's the distingui****ng feature of a s****t but
let's not get side-tracked on that.

> Why should any s****t need more than 24 games in order to decide who
> the world champion is?

Snooker uses a best of 35 match, over three days.  (It's not possible
for a frame to be tied so the odd number of games guarantees a
winner.)

The point is that the champion and challenger are very closely-matched
in skill.  Very short matches mean that the title can be decided by a
single error, which leads to a feeling that the title is not really
earnt.

> Want a simple solution?  How about if the defending champion doesn't
> secure more points than his opponent after 24 games, then he loses
> his title, and there is no reigning world champ.

That has the same problem as the idea of declaring joint champions in
the same situation -- how do you arrange the *next* champion****p?

> Someone please tell me exactly what reigning world champions do to
> help the growth of chess?

Serve as an aspiration and a role model?  Almost all s****ts have world
and regional champions so I assume there must be some value in it.

> If nothing, why not end up not having one, if allows chess to to make
> needed changes.  As I see it, the reigning chess champion is known by
> next to no one outside the chess world.  How useful is that?  Are we
> supposed to blame the reigning champ as not being Bobby Fischer?

My guess is that, if you ask the man on the street who is the world
chess champion, he'll say `I don't know' or `Garry Kasparov'.

> As far as unlimited number of games go, are they going to hold the
> world champion****p in the FIDE headquarters?  Please tell me how
> exactly you will be able to have a location to have the tournament
> for MONTHS?  Also, tell me how the world is going to care.

These are exactly the problems that led to the matches being fixed at
twenty-four games, with draw odds for the champion!


Dave.
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