Chess triathlon - a better wcc

Triathlon = swimming, biking and running. The world championship chess needs some more appeal. I would combine chess with javeling and ice skating to make it more attractive than just pure chess. Although judo?

Synchronised Swimming and Snooker

Chess, Curling, and Ski Jumping

He rooperi, synchronised swimming is a team sport. How would that work?

If they do the jumping first, the average age of the GMs would dramatically decrease..

Don't forget yodeling.  

Geez, we're chess players. We'll figure out something.

I like the yodeling. But do you yodel until one of the two collapses or can they agree a draw?

I think yodeling was invented to call the cows home. The one with the most cows ay the end wins.

If it's a tie, they do an Armageddon Yodel, the first guy to call a cow wins

Xiangqi and shogi.

I once saw a match on a field that was divided in 8*8 squares and the public was betting on which square the cow would take a dump.

TBentley wrote:

Xiangqi and shogi.

Hmmm.. Sounds spectacular :-)

That cow must have been highly rated.  A dump is a classic zwischenzug move.

I imagine that anand would have a problem with pushing cows. Indian people do not like to disturb cows. We would have to solve that one.

I'm rooting for Anand, but it looks like his cows are not coming home.

I never understood zwischenzug, but now i do. Is uberdeckung then really what i think it is?

What about a finger-fehler ? Warum spechen wir deutch ? Ich bin ein Berliner ...

Chess, ping-pong, and pool -- when I was in college many years ago that was what we had in the rec-hall 

On a serious note, what if the WCC was built around a tournament of standard time, blitz and fischer random? The champ would be the player with the best score out of all three categories.