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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.chess,net.games
Subject: Re: World Chess Championship aborted
Message-ID: <415@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 02:00:12 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.415
Posted: Sun Feb 17 02:00:12 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 03:24:38 EST
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Summary: weird rule

In article <1624@ittvax.UUCP> aouriri@ittvax.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) 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!

I realize that under the old rules, as soon as a player had a
lead he'd force draws to give himself a victory, but this is
even worse. There's gotta be a better way!

Dave Sherman
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