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tonberrytoby posted:I must admit that I have no idea if I would want to play black or white in an Armageddon game. Black for sure. Guaranteed win for holding a draw. Guaranteed win for winning the game. Loss if you lose. This forces white to play to avoid any line that allows you to trade down into endgames. The extra time given up isn't even time you can't spend thinking - since if your opponent uses it to consider the board, you can too. There's a whole pile of games on lichess won by carlsen after berserking as well, so time odds are not even unfamiliar to him as a concept.
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Carlsen's match strategy was right, rapid caruana is not nearly as precise. I agree with whoever upthread commented that karjakin's defenses were more interesting than anything caruana has done this series. I really want a match format change for the next one though, because winning in tiebreaks the past two championships feels bad. Magnus Carlsen ladies and gentlemen.
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Nov 28, 2018 19:24
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I think I'd rather see something like draw odds to the challenger with an unequal number of whites starting in the champion's favor and a sliding adjustment towards the challenger for every time the champion defends. IDK.
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Nov 28, 2018 20:10
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The draw rate in correspondence and computer chess championship series both point towards unbalanced scoring for draws being hard to work in tournament settings. In a match you might be able to find a good value in points for draws vs wins. I doubt it’s as clean as 3 2 1 0 though.
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