That is no doubt a good point, but how the rules are written also depends upon players and “players”’s ideas and upon managers and “managers”’s ability to promote them. It was not hard to discuss the World Chess Championship’s format (both for men and women) with living former World Chess Champions rather than with Yeltsin’s ghost. It’s very interesting, for instance, what 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov told TASS today: “Upcoming developments during the tie-breaker have nothing to do with the game of chess. It is wrong to determine the new World Champion this way. Rapid games are more or less suitable, but blitz and the possibly ensuing Armageddon (game) are stupid. Such a system can only choose a neighborhood champ, but never the World Champion. This is a monstrous invention, which totally goes against all common sense”.
It’s hard to disagree, even if I personally would regard Fischerandom chess (with classical time control) as a more probing tie-break system than Rapid. |
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