World Chess Championship format sucks!

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urslove

World Chess Championship's current format encourages the feeling that a draw is OK. Tournament rules should put pressure on Champion or Challenger to score a win.

I propose a simple rule (basically creating an imbalance):

Challenger must "defeat" Champion to become World Chess Champion. Champion retains in case of a tie! To make it more fun: Champion must "defeat" Challenger if they fight again for the title!

It will push players to go for WIN, take risks. 

Jenium

They used to have draw odds for the champion, but removed it for some reason a couple of years ago...

urslove

It must come back..

IcyAvaleigh
I do not understand how this is an improvement. if you let 2 players play against each other and want to know who of them is better, why would you give one of them advantage?
urslove

It is not just any 2 players. One of them is a Champion (who DEFEATED the previous Champion). The Challenger must be SIGNIFICANTLY better than the Champion to become World Chess Champion. That is the idea.

IcyAvaleigh
sorry but that makes no sense. firstly it is a new championship, secondly if the previous champion can not beat the challenger he is not a worthy champion as well
IpswichMatt

That’s how it is with boxing - the champ is still the champ if it’s a draw.

The downside in chess is that the champion is more likely to be happy with draws I suppose. Another downside is we don’t get the excitement of rapid games to decide it if the score is tied. 

I agree though- the challenger should have to beat the champ at proper time controls. Being the world champion should mean something.

 

IcyAvaleigh
the same can be said about the previous champion, how does it mean something to be world champion if you couldn't even beat your challenger?
Jenium

Because it is difficult to beat someone in chess, if both play perfectly.

urslove
IcyAvaleigh wrote:
sorry but that makes no sense. firstly it is a new championship, secondly if the previous champion can not beat the challenger he is not a worthy champion as well

Champion already proved himself once. It is the Challenger who must DEFEAT Champion. Draw does not mean current Champion is not worthy, it means Challenger is not ready yet.

IcyAvaleigh
well the champion proved himself, in most cases, by beating player A not player B which is a complete new game. and to me a draw means 2 players are equal and you can not decide yet who of them the better player is. why does it just mean the challenger is not ready yet to you?
Jenium

It is like you need to break a record to become the new record holder. It is not enough to tie it...

urslove
IcyAvaleigh wrote:
well the champion proved himself, in most cases, by beating player A not player B which is a complete new game. and to me a draw means 2 players are equal and you can not decide yet who of them the better player is. why does it just mean the challenger is not ready yet to you?

Simply because he/she did not DEFEAT the current champion.

IcyAvaleigh
same can be said about the champion not beating the challenger
urslove
IcyAvaleigh wrote:
same can be said about the champion not beating the challenger

Show some respect for the Champion.

IcyAvaleigh
and you for the challenger ;)
IcyAvaleigh
I just do not understand why you pick the champion as winner instead of the challenger after all games are drawn. change the words champion and challenger for white and black and you will get why that reason looks wrong
urslove
IcyAvaleigh wrote:
I just do not understand why you pick the champion as winner instead of the challenger after all games are drawn. change the words champion and challenger for white and black and you will get why that reason looks wrong

That is the reason why I wrote "show respect for the Champion". Champion is NOT EQUAL to the challenger, one cannot just "change the words". Challenger is the person who is challenging, hence he/she must prove. 

x-9525854026

Here’s a thought. If WCC tied after twelve games, they play four more. If still tied, they share the title til next cycle and the candidates has top two finishers play for the crown. ( I’ll let smarter people find a way to settle six way ties at the candidates. )

Reverse4Life

I think this is a bad idea.  It should be who wins in a fair game.  At their level, given enough times, almost every game will be a draw anyways.  Maybe someday they'll just do away with the slow games and it'll be an all rapid championship, just assuming that slower games are draws.