World Championship game discussion

[Mulfish]

@scottrparker

@Mulfish

Mr. Parker’s apocalypse is not yet imminent since the match is tied.

On a more serious note, does anyone else think it absurd that the “classical” world chess championship is going to be decided by rapid, and possibly blitz games? If the blitz world chess championship ended in a tie do you think they would do a play-off via classical time controls?

GM Yasser Seirawan has advocated changing from a 12 game match to a 13 game match, with the player having the extra game with black also having draw odds in the match. I’m not convinced this is the best solution, but at least it’s an idea that beats the current format.

I find it absurd. But then I also find deciding a World Cup on penalty kicks pretty strange.

Draw odds is way too big an advantage for an extra black. But suppose you took a page from the Arageddon playbook -bidding? The players could bid on how many extra blacks they would accept to get draw odds. Or on how much of a time deficit in each game, white or black, to get draw odds.

[scottrparker]

@Mulfish

@scottrparker

@Mulfish

Mr. Parker’s apocalypse is not yet imminent since the match is tied.

On a more serious note, does anyone else think it absurd that the “classical” world chess championship is going to be decided by rapid, and possibly blitz games? If the blitz world chess championship ended in a tie do you think they would do a play-off via classical time controls?

GM Yasser Seirawan has advocated changing from a 12 game match to a 13 game match, with the player having the extra game with black also having draw odds in the match. I’m not convinced this is the best solution, but at least it’s an idea that beats the current format.

I find it absurd. But then I also find deciding a World Cup on penalty kicks pretty strange.

Draw odds is way too big an advantage for an extra black. But suppose you took a page from the Arageddon playbook -bidding? The players could bid on how many extra blacks they would accept to get draw odds. Or on how much of a time deficit in each game, white or black, to get draw odds.

Agreed about the World Cup. That’s like having game seven of the baseball World Series end tied after nine innings, so you decide it with a home run derby…Your ideas of bidding on number of blacks or on time odds are interesting. They’re both better than the current format, but then that’s a pretty low bar to cross.

[ChessSpawn]

A suggestion from a fan at Chessbase. If there’s a tie, have the players continue playing classical games until one of them wins. The first one to score a victory is the champion. I like that except that I would have the original match be for 16 or 18 games.