To answer my own retorical question -- in Wijk aan Zee 1999, Kasparov started with a draw and then won seven in a row (Van Wely, Yermolinsky, Topalov, Reinderman, Piket, Shirov and Kasimdzhanov), 7.5/8, before losing to Ivan Sokolov.
So let's see if Carlsen can do better :-)
I'm not nearly strong enough to see a game and say, hey that's Kasparov influence right there.
Of course there's the obvious that everybody jumps on (he's played the Scotch and the Najdorf). But in general his style is supposed to be much more like Karpov than Kasparov, and the way he's winning is not by stunning novelties and extremely deep calculation, but by relentlessly setting problems for his opponents and never letting go of a better position.
And anyway, when's the last time Kasparov got 4.5/5 in a field like this? But of course it's better to compare stats like that after the whole ten rounds. He may yet lose a few.
Anyway, I don't believe that a soccer scoring system would have changed anything about the other results.
Yes, I am referring to his opening choices : a scotch, najdorf and a gruenfeld ..... all openings Kasparov was famous for.
I think it's an interesting proposition. I'd love for a club organizer here to test it out in a real setting and see if anything really changes.
I think it's an interesting proposition. I'd love for a club organizer here to test it out in a real setting and see if anything really changes.
It wouldn't mean anything at club level.
To be honest if thats what the scores were to be (3 for win 1 for tie 0 for lost) i would never accept a draw and would go for more of an attacking position to try to get wins because 1 is too low, but for .5 - 1 scoring i would go for more of a draw/win but i wouldnt care if i drew.
I'm not nearly strong enough to see a game and say, hey that's Kasparov influence right there.
Of course there's the obvious that everybody jumps on (he's played the Scotch and the Najdorf). But in general his style is supposed to be much more like Karpov than Kasparov, and the way he's winning is not by stunning novelties and extremely deep calculation, but by relentlessly setting problems for his opponents and never letting go of a better position.
And anyway, when's the last time Kasparov got 4.5/5 in a field like this? But of course it's better to compare stats like that after the whole ten rounds. He may yet lose a few.
Anyway, I don't believe that a soccer scoring system would have changed anything about the other results.