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EJAY
May 30, 2012, 8:55:01 AM5/30/12
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Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
Taylor Kingston
May 30, 2012, 12:19:43 PM5/30/12
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On May 30, 5:55 am, EJAY <etj...@aol.com> wrote:
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
Hurrah! Congratulations to Vishy.
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
Quadibloc
May 30, 2012, 3:54:52 PM5/30/12
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title through a tie - having given up that privilege - is something
for which he can be applauded as well.
But the fact that the use of games with very tight time controls are
used as a tie-breaker dismays me. It seems to say that serious chess,
where the players have time to think of good moves, is basically dead
- because it's incapable of producing decisive enough results to be
competitive, at least at the World Championship level.
Of course, many people will feel that this is an overreaction.
Checkers long ago had to adopt a two-move and a three-move
restriction; Chess is in nowhere near as much trouble. At most levels,
it is still very competitive.
Still, in my opinion, since the World Championship is the event most
likely to get the interest of the general public, anything to be done
with Chess (think of the 1/3-1/3 scoring for draws, which works in
tournaments, but not matches, IMO) to reduce the frequency of draws or
otherwise make it more interesting as a spectator sport, needs to be
applicable to it.
Switching to Chess 960 is, I think, too radical - and, anyways, that
solves a different problem, that serious players are spending too much
time keeping up with the openings.
I have my own idea, which I've recently mentioned - Dynamic Scoring,
where partial victories are scored, and Black gets a bonus which looms
larger for the smallest of those victories. The idea is that, for
example, counting stalemate as 1/5 of a win won't change Chess _much_.
John Savard
Offramp
May 30, 2012, 5:48:55 PM5/30/12
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On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:55:01 UTC+1, EJAY wrote:
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
Bad luck to Boris indeed but he did manage to prove Mel Gibson wrong by giving up a pawn in game 12.
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
micky
May 30, 2012, 6:57:46 PM5/30/12
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ChessFire
Jun 5, 2012, 5:46:28 PM6/5/12
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On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:55:01 AM UTC-4, EJAY wrote:
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
Rapid chess for the World Championship? What a farce!
> Vishy wins the Rapid Tie-Breaks 2.5-1.5 to retain the world Championships vs Boris Gelfand..
This was one of the most boring championships ever, and poor Gelfand to have lost by these means.
Carlsen would have beaten both of them and we all know it. But Carlsen doesn't like FIDE's qualification process and is simply content to be the best player on the planet as proved by ELO rather than the world champion as proved by chessocrats. Carlson is now about 60 Elo's over Anand, which are a lot of points at the top end of things.
This is why Kasparov and Short broke out from the W Ch cycle.
Phil Innes
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