How would you have the time and money to set up for the candidate matches for around the world event ? is like asking for the olympic to held every year !
Anand Will Not Defend Until 2012
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May 16, 2010
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Estragon wrote:
CerebralAssassin wrote:
I say it should be an annual thing.we have super bowls every year.we have wrestlemania's every year.why should chess be any different?lower the amount of games and make it annual.
I hear all the time that Lasker held on to the title for 27 years....but how many times did he defend it in that time period?probably not more than 5 or 6 times (of course I'm not saying he didn't deserve it,just that the title defense should be an annual thing).
It's just not possible to run the qualifiers AND a match every year, unless you want to limit the field of candidates to the top 10 or less.
Lasker defended his title whenever someone could raise the money. In those days matches were financed by the players' backers, who put up the money for a prize fund. It was difficult to raise money to play Lasker, because he was dominant, especially in the period leading up to WWI.
It's hardly Lasker's fault that he was considered too good to have a chance to beat for so long.
limiting it to the top ten ain't so bad IMO.
about Lasker...of course I'm not blaming him for this.there should have been some sort of FIDE back then to finance that sort of stuff,instead of challengers digging out of their pockets.
How ridiculous is this conversation.
'we have a wrestlemania every year and therefore we should have the wcc every year as well'
'there should have been fide when lasker was around'
arrh just think before you start writing its just cringe worthy.
DannyOcean wrote:
I think it should be an annual event. I think that every two years is simply too long in the context of a competitive sport, and is unfair to the numerous talented challengers.
I think the best sports analogy would be boxing or MMA, combat sports. In boxing or MMA, there is one champion (per weight class). It's not like team sports where there is a playoff with many teams. There's one man and that man is THE MAN, and he takes on one challenger at a time.
In that spirit, boxing and MMA champions usually have at least one title defense per year. It creates more interest to have these events more frequently. It's better for the sport, and it's fairer to the competition who don't have to wait years to earn a title shot.
well put! I agree
it don't matter.it's a championship event.the most prestigious one.
like I said...champs shouldn't be allowed to coast out/relax for too long or else their game will suffer