Maggy-Fabso Drawternity - keep telling yourself it's interesting...

...because it isn't, and it's a klaxon call to FIDE that it's time to end classic time controls. Just like those big old shopping malls that are empty, no-one wants to pay attention to this kind of chess anymore. 

Except YOU of course. You think it's just great, all these endless draws. You think it's "true" chess and filled with learning experiences. You revel in listening to Nakamura chew hours of video-feed trying to earn his keep by making it interesting. Well, YOU are a member of an extremely shrinking group of people. And YOU are the reason chess continues to trail behind curling, bridge, and penny pitch as an organized sport capable of drawing any mainstream interest. 

SOLUTION: G/90. No delays.  No "added seconds to the clock." Just...G90. That's a three-hour game, the same length as an American football game, and if one of these two maroons can't pull off a win in that kind of tighter time control - well then maybe we really DO need to embrace the grim alleyways of Seirawan chess. 

--TMB

All these endless draws are not a project of a perfect gameplay from both sides. Classical chess its a different game very few Master level players can understand...Nakamura included.

From a viewers eye, it misses the " Showtime " a least longer time control match would have but at the same moment, it shows how complex and difficult for humans chess can be even if time considering a position is endless. 

I agree with you that G/90 will make it more attractive to follow and we will see more wrong decisions from players but that's not the case...of a World Championship match neither what Classical chess is meant to be.

Players must have the time needed to search in depth even what they follow is a...Ghost.

Making the world championship quick time controls isn't going to put it on ESPN. It's just going to turn off the core audience.

Chess will never be mainstream. Stop looking for a 'solution'.

Who are you trying to convince this is boring?

And why haven't they gotten the message, in the last 40 threads?

I'm not trying to convince YOU. Clearly you are fine with it. Cool, revel in the draws, but ten bucks say you never revisit these games in your future study. My point is we are reaching draw death with World Champion chess, and it's time too look at some options. Do YOU have any?

Whoever thinks it's boring can ask his money back.

pfren, can I have my money back?

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>Classical chess is dying from computer preparation, not the huge time controls. <

An interesting point. But since we can't stop computer preparation, we should look at the time allocations.  The better players won't need as much time.  

 You are missing the point. Positions require more time to think, not the better or worst players.

Do you want to travel back in time to see how many times Garry Kasparov spent 20 minutes and half an hour thinking a position in a classical time control chess game?

Giving a player the ability-potential to think a position more you increase the chances for him to play better but that's not enough to make him play like a computer. We didn't reach the moment where classical chess time controls make Carlsen and Caruana play like Stockfish. They play bad moves and its a matter of character-psychology and style of play more than precise calculation if we will see a more interesting game.

Carlsen so far was gambling with Blacks in the Sveshnikov but Caruana didn't take the risk. Someone else would have taken that...perhaps! Outside the board, it's easy for everyone to claim he takes risks or plays aggressively.

It's the WCC final match. Psychology plays an important factor.

We can't judge the Classical chess time control's and their effect on the game results when this match is a lot more than that!!  

I have the suspicion that if we have made this final match in G90 time controls we will have see the same exact games. 11 D

I think the game amount should be increased to 16 games (but no more), only because I see it unreasonable that the candidates tournament contains more games than the world chess championship. 

The thing with this WCC is that although Carlsen is playing for a win in the games, he can afford to come out of it equal. Caruana is simply not strong enough to break Carlsen.

When you say core audience do you mean the 400 people that are in attendance at the world chess championship? I think everyone knows chess will never be mainstream, because it's way too boring for most people. But I dont see any reason why it should be losing popularity either, other than stubbornness. 

Of course chess will never be on ESPN because it's not a sport, but if it were more interesting, it would appeal to more people. I think there should be two different events. Regular chess where they play15 or 20 long time control games, and if there is a tie, keep doing that until someone wins. And then a different event where it's all short time controls. I dont understand why they would mix the two.

400 people paying the prices they are charging to watch something that is no more exciting in person than on a laptop seems like a success.

No the core audience is following at home.

Hey Pfren...after Game 12, now I REALLY want my money back. 

Well at least now it will be worth watching. I haven't watched ANY of it so far, for obvious reasons. I look at it this way, games 1 through 12 were probably like watching paint dry on a warehouse. The tie breakers will be like watching a graffiti artist spray paint. Might not be what everyone wants, but definitely more interesting. 

If you want something worth watching, Hikaru is about to play puzzle rush:

https://www.twitch.tv/gmhikaru