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The biggest risk here is one player will unveil a novelty the other happens not to be prepared for. Then a week of analysis will be pitted against 25 minutes of over-the-board thought, resulting in a quick kill.
Looks like the top players are OK with the format. I have not heard of any strong opposition with regards to tie-breaks format. Having an European champion few years ago who won the title after his opponent blundered a rook in a blitz tie-break did not worry anybody at the top. It's up to the top players...they compare themselves with Fischer or Kasparov, or they compare themselves with Ponomariov and Khalifman...
Get used to it.
The organizers/sponsors quite naturally want some assurance of an unequivocal result within a fixed period of time. As for the players, the top guys are fine with it according to the folks I have talked to.
It is the same in other sports---the shootout in hockey or soccer.
Thre will be those of us who regret the passing of a more relaxed age when games and matches could go on for ever but those times are past.
I do agree that 12 games seems unnecessarily abrupt. The old 24 or even 16 would be preferable. But if the result were only to see four more mind-numbingg draws....
Get used to it.
The organizers/sponsors quite naturally want some assurance of an unequivocal result within a fixed period of time. As for the players, the top guys are fine with it according to the folks I have talked to.
It is the same in other sports---the shootout in hockey or soccer.
Thre will be those of us who regret the passing of a more relaxed age when games and matches could go on for ever but those times are past.
I do agree that 12 games seems unnecessarily abrupt. The old 24 or even 16 would be preferable. But if the result were only to see four more mind-numbingg draws....
A really good idea that some have suggested is to play the tiebreaks before the long games.
For very obvious reasons, at least one of the players is going to take some huge risks if they know that they have to win the regular time control match.
This was the worst world championships match in recent history. I can't even watch anymore. Gelfand wins cause Anand sucked and Anand won cause Gelfand trapped his queen... like oh god this is so effing awful... I'm so glad I'm working right now and not listening to ICC commentary while watching the games live.
This was the worst world championships match in recent history. I can't even watch anymore. Gelfand wins cause Anand sucked and Anand won cause Gelfand trapped his queen... like oh god this is so effing awful... I'm so glad I'm working right now and not listening to ICC commentary while watching the games live.
This has been the greatest World Championship match in history. Why?
More than 12 games would be nice, but I seem to recall the previous 12-game match, between Anand and Topalov, having several more decisive games, with the draws played all the way out. This was credited to Topalov's "uncompromising" style... so, what can we say about Gelfand's and Anand's "compromsing" styles? I am not so concerned about the lack of decisive games as I am by the fact that only one of the draws was played all the way out.
It seems to me that the challenger should have to beat the champion in slow games, and that speeding play up cheapens the title of world chess champion. But given this, I agree with those who suggest that the fast games should be played first, so that at least the onus is on somone to win.
A really good idea that some have suggested is to play the tiebreaks before the long games.
For very obvious reasons, at least one of the players is going to take some huge risks if they know that they have to win the regular time control match.
I think that idea makes a lot of sense. I assume that you'd have to have a second set of tiebreaks, after the long games, if the loser of the initial tiebreaks caught up during the long games. But even so, at least you'd be going into the long games with pressure on one of the players to play aggressively.
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I assume that you'd have to have a second set of tiebreaks, after the long games, if the loser of the initial tiebreaks caught up during the long games.
There's no catching up. The winner of the pre-match tie breaks gets draw-odds in the main match.
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