aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) (09/04/85)
At a recent meeting of the International Chess federation FIDE in Tunisia, the Russians managed to put their stamp on the new world championship title rules to make it easier for Karpov to keep his title of world champ, and -more important- to guarantee a Soviet monopoly on the world title. Here are the new rigged rules, "a la soviet": 1) A limited 24 games match. In case of a draw (12-12),the champ retains his title. 2) If the champ looses, he still can invoke the rematch clause, and play a second "decisive" match with the same rules as in 1). 3) The selection process to determine the next challenger of the world champ is as follows: a) A K.O. match tournament between 12 contenders from the Interzonals, and 4 seeded from the last cycle will produce 2 candidates. b) The loser of the last world championship match (karpov or Kasparov in this instance) will join these 2 candidates for a 3-way playoff tournament. The winner of this tournament will be the challenger. It will be nearly impossible for a non-soviet chess player to become challenger. Because, statistically, at least two soviet players have always reached the candidates tournament, this rule 3-b seems designed to allow collusion between the soviet candidates. According to rumours, they unsuccessfully tried to push for a rule limiting the money purse of the world championship match, in order to further de-motivate any possible "capitalist" contender.
bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (09/06/85)
What would you expect from a country that uses chemical weapons and "butterfly" mines to kill Afghan children? -- Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. ...{presby|psuvax1|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl "That's the news from Lake Wobegon ... "
peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (09/17/85)
> At a recent meeting of the International Chess federation FIDE > in Tunisia, the Russians managed to put their stamp on the new > world championship title rules to make it easier for Karpov to > keep his title of world champ, and -more important- to guarantee > a Soviet monopoly on the world title. An interesting point: those rules are strangely reminiscent of the rules governing the America's Cup. They're somewhat more one-sided, I must admit, but the form & intent are remarkably similar.