he deserved it
I cant believe Ian played QC7, kind of ruined his chances. Great world championship though. Ding played great and deserved that win.
Congrats Ding!
Yan was too confused i guess.
Indians, Norwegians, and Chinamen chased them out of the WCC. Nepo, Caruana, MVL, Grishuk and Aaronian just don't have the enough ummph to get er done.
I dislike these short matches punctuated by a few Rapid games and possibly Armagaeddon Blitz. It's like trying to settle the NBA Championship by a couple of half-court games lasting 8 minutes, or by playing HORSE for the final game.
I speak is spanish. BONITO!
Congratulations to our newly crowned King
@borisandnatasha said in #32:
> I dislike these short matches punctuated by a few Rapid games and possibly Armagaeddon Blitz. It's like trying to settle the NBA Championship by a couple of half-court games lasting 8 minutes, or by playing HORSE for the final game.
I think it's not so different with respect to football games ending with penalties.
It's as arbitrary as other solutions.
An alternative would be having additional classical games, but it can get trickier to organize on a practical level.
> I dislike these short matches punctuated by a few Rapid games and possibly Armagaeddon Blitz. It's like trying to settle the NBA Championship by a couple of half-court games lasting 8 minutes, or by playing HORSE for the final game.
I think it's not so different with respect to football games ending with penalties.
It's as arbitrary as other solutions.
An alternative would be having additional classical games, but it can get trickier to organize on a practical level.
@esmiro said in #29:
> I think it's not so different with respect to football games ending with penalties.
> It's as arbitrary as other solutions.
>
> An alternative would be having additional classical games, but it can get trickier to organize on a practical level.
I agree esmiro, more classical games, like maybe 24 games for the match, like Spassky-Fischer 1972and previous matches that ended around game 20 or 21. But not the marathon matches played by Alekhine. Instead, 24-game matches would avoid the panic that sets in if you lose one game early in a short match. Or maybe first player to win four games with draws not counting (Fischer's version with six games could make overly long matches, e.g. Karpov - Kasparov 1984/85 that actually had to be cancelled).
> I think it's not so different with respect to football games ending with penalties.
> It's as arbitrary as other solutions.
>
> An alternative would be having additional classical games, but it can get trickier to organize on a practical level.
I agree esmiro, more classical games, like maybe 24 games for the match, like Spassky-Fischer 1972and previous matches that ended around game 20 or 21. But not the marathon matches played by Alekhine. Instead, 24-game matches would avoid the panic that sets in if you lose one game early in a short match. Or maybe first player to win four games with draws not counting (Fischer's version with six games could make overly long matches, e.g. Karpov - Kasparov 1984/85 that actually had to be cancelled).
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