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From: dfw@ll1.UUCP (Dan Webster)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re. Postponment of World Championship
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 20:11:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 20:11:43 1985
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> I was looking for something like this to offer my 2 cents. 
> First, let me give youa little history.
> From the beginning of chess history till about 1936 the world champion
> would set the rules for the match. They also agreed on the rule that the 
> contender must finance at least $10k of prize money. The formula 6 wins
> draws don't count was popular. In 1936 right after winning the world championship
> from Alekhine (sp?) Max Euve (sp?) give the right to set the rules to FIDE.
> From that point on they always had limits right untill Fisher wanted
> to play by his rules. At that point (after Karpov became champion)
> the present formula was adopted and Karpov and Korchnoy played 2 matches.

As you can see, a bit of the above was received garbled, but there are a
few points mentioned above that need straightening out.

First... The last pure win match was played between Alekhine and
Capablanca in 1927. Alekhine won that match 6 - 3 with 25 (!) draws.
It was the lengh of this match that brought about the abolition
of the pure wins system.

The last two Karpov - Korchnoi were played under a "wins or points"
system with a 24 game limit.

...............

Previously, it was mentioned on the net that Karpov also wanted to
play on. An article in the weeks Sports Ill. states that after the
announcement at the press conference Kasparov got up and said that
he did not want the match to stop. The press conference was put on
hold while the 2 players confered for about an hour with the FIDE
president.... Upon resuming, it was stated that Karpov "agreeded"
to the cancelation, and Kasparov "accepted" it. In short, Kasparov
got screwed!

	(It was also mentioned that Karpov may demand that the
resumed match be started at 2 - 0! )