Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2d.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!houxm!hou2d!wbp From: wbp@hou2d.UUCP (W.PINEAULT) Newsgroups: net.chess Subject: Re Re ... Re Chess Championship Message-ID: <515@hou2d.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 13:30:17 EST Article-I.D.: hou2d.515 Posted: Fri Feb 22 13:30:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 06:54:46 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 17 I have not heard the following explanation yet. If you were Campomanes and wanted to stop the match because of possible psychological harm to the players, you just could not stop it when the score was 5-1, how would that look? No, you wait until either Karpov wins, or the challenger wins a specific number of games, in this case 2. (There is an article New York Times Fri Feb 22 page A7) Wayne Pineault AT&T Consumer Products "No matter where you go, well, there you are!"