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FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by School-Cotton »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #38
ttyyzz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd rather have the best current player in there. I thought this WCC was rather pointless.

What are they supposed to do, not have a world championship? It's happened before when Fischer refused to defend the title. And yet Karpov got the title without having beaten Fischer, who he probably wouldn't have beaten in a match even if Fischer was nutty bananas at the time. But at least he had played a match to win the candidates tournament at the time. This time around, Ian hadn't won a match, and so the match m…

> What are they supposed to do, not have a world championship?

Yes, that’s a reasonable proposal. Title matches don’t have to happen on a fixed schedule like the Super Bowl, and in the past, they didn’t. They were ad-hoc and happened whenever a worthy contender raised enough prize money to challenge the current champion, who had a lot of leeway in negotiating the format and venue.

Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by School-Cotton »

Mistletoe wrote: post #21
mellosouls wrote: post #17

Meanwhile, Magnus... https://youtube.com/shorts/mNiPUPRt89Q

I watch the Botez sisters and even this kind of grosses me out.

Why? Looks like a few normal young people drinking and having fun, what is wrong with that?

Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by ginnungagap »

somenameforme wrote: post #25
agubelu wrote: post #22

It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players. The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.

It was also extremely odd to me that there was no Chinese press there. Ding's English is not excellent, and to not be able to catch his first moments in his native tongue seems to have been a major failing of the Chinese press.

Ding was offered a translator but insisted on speaking English himself apparently!

"He said he didn’t need a translator since, “I feel very comfortable now,” " from https://chess24.com/en/read/news/ding-liren-passes-acid-test...

Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by dkqmduems »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #49
agubelu wrote: post #22

It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players. The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.

Hard to take the WCC seriously when everyone know Carlsen would have won and just find the whole thing too boring to take part.

I suspect Magnus would disagree.

Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by matsemann »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #38
ttyyzz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd rather have the best current player in there. I thought this WCC was rather pointless.

What are they supposed to do, not have a world championship? It's happened before when Fischer refused to defend the title. And yet Karpov got the title without having beaten Fischer, who he probably wouldn't have beaten in a match even if Fischer was nutty bananas at the time. But at least he had played a match to win the candidates tournament at the time. This time around, Ian hadn't won a match, and so the match m…

> What are they supposed to do, not have a world championship?

Perhaps change the format. Carlsen stepped down, because it's too much preparation year after year. And with him being the GOAT, everyone was always preparing defensively and hoping for a blunder, making it somewhat "boring" games (quotes, as in draws doesn't have to be boring).

Re: FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks

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Post by [deleted] »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #23
jeremyjh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just a blunder, but a blunder made too quickly when he had plenty of time. If Nepo won a third straight candidates (he's automatically qualified) that would be an extremely impressive achievement that would be a first in world history I believe.

I wonder if Carlsen will participate. I'm actually rather salty at him for forfeiting the title. If you are a chess champion, you have to defend the title until you lose, or die, whichever happens first. After he had refused to defend the title, it made the title of his successor automatically less worthy. That's bad.

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