George Duke wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2016 10:24 PM UTC:
Draw_Chess. Draws 4 and that makes the score 2-2. Game 4 was a long worthwhile watch like Game 3. For the most part the recipients of a supposed billion viewers do not see a problem, yet what other sport or mind sport would tolerate tie after tie? It looks like still an opening for more decisive Chess Variants. Or they could do a lot better just in adopting an accepted tie-breaker by F.I.D.E. interests for lack of any other creativity.
Today is rest day, and with no wins the match may run to November 30. Equivalent to reduction to an 8-game match now, it should be equally likely that one victory will take the whole thing as two victories. Forget about so many as three wins as necessary. 1-0-10, or 2-1-9 at the extremes. There has been reference that Carlsen has not done well at Fischer Random, or Chess 960, by some Orthodox authority. Despite the experts for this tournament, Carlsen seems less versatile in style than Karjakin who comes up with great defense surprises. To support that finding, usually remote watchers can name 3 moves and Carlsen does make one of them, but it takes 4 suggestions for Karjakin likely to pick one of them.
Draw_Chess. Draws 4 and that makes the score 2-2. Game 4 was a long worthwhile watch like Game 3. For the most part the recipients of a supposed billion viewers do not see a problem, yet what other sport or mind sport would tolerate tie after tie? It looks like still an opening for more decisive Chess Variants. Or they could do a lot better just in adopting an accepted tie-breaker by F.I.D.E. interests for lack of any other creativity.
Today is rest day, and with no wins the match may run to November 30. Equivalent to reduction to an 8-game match now, it should be equally likely that one victory will take the whole thing as two victories. Forget about so many as three wins as necessary. 1-0-10, or 2-1-9 at the extremes. There has been reference that Carlsen has not done well at Fischer Random, or Chess 960, by some Orthodox authority. Despite the experts for this tournament, Carlsen seems less versatile in style than Karjakin who comes up with great defense surprises. To support that finding, usually remote watchers can name 3 moves and Carlsen does make one of them, but it takes 4 suggestions for Karjakin likely to pick one of them.