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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.chess,net.games
Subject: Re: World Chess Championship aborted
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 20:22:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 20:22:49 1985
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In article <415@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>|| If after 24 games the players are tied, the match will continue
>|| one game a time, until one game is won. That is, the first to
>|| win a game after 24 games will be declared champ.
>
>That sounds like an insane rule to me. As soon as a player
>is down a couple of games, he'll play the next 24-N to a
>draw (not losing more than 3) and start from scratch in sudden-death!

Ummm ... Dave ... notice the key phrase "the players are tied". They
must be tied at the end of the normal series in order to go into
sudden-death (just like a hockey game! :-) ).  So playing to draw when
you're down would just ensure your loss.  This is much better than the
old system where matches draw out for ever and ever.  Under this
system, I believe Kasparov would have won as I think Karpov won his
five games fairly quickly before they started drawing.

In any case, even if the new system is *much* better by quantum leaps,
there is *no way* they should interrupt an ongoing match.  RULES
SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED IN MID-GAME!  Rumours say that Karpov is
beginning to suffer from mental illness due to the pressure --- is
this the reasoning behind the ICF's decision: they don't want Kasparov
to win?

				   \tom haapanen
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