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From: aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri)
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Subject: New rigged world title rules
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 12:36:58 EDT
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At a recent meeting of the International Chess federation FIDE
in Tunisia, the Russians managed to put their stamp on the new
world championship title rules to make it easier for Karpov to
keep his title of world champ, and -more important- to guarantee 
a Soviet monopoly on the world title.
Here are the new rigged rules, "a la soviet":

1) A limited 24 games match. In case of a draw (12-12),the champ
retains his title.

2) If the champ looses, he still can invoke the rematch clause,
and play a second "decisive" match with the same rules as in 1).

3) The selection process to determine the next challenger of the 
world champ is as follows:
    a) A K.O. match tournament between 12 contenders from the
       Interzonals, and 4 seeded from the last cycle will 
       produce 2 candidates.
    b) The loser of the last world championship match (karpov
       or Kasparov in this instance) will join these 2 candidates
       for a 3-way playoff tournament. The winner of this
       tournament will be the challenger.

It will be nearly impossible for a non-soviet chess player to
become challenger. Because, statistically, at least two soviet
players have always reached the candidates tournament, this
rule 3-b seems designed to allow collusion between the soviet
candidates.
   
According to rumours, they unsuccessfully tried to push for a rule
limiting the money purse of the world championship match, in
order to further de-motivate any possible "capitalist" contender.