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What are the downsides of letting the reigning champion choose the format of the championship (within reason)?
What's the point of having a championship match if the winners must regularly grind for months or lose everything, or worse, come out broken or burnt out? I don't mean going back to the wild days of ...
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Why isn't there more classical armageddon with auction?
This has been asked about here but without auction:
Would a classic full time armageddon tiebreaker be balanced?
Classical Time Control Armageddon?
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Afaik, there's been only 1 ...
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If a player is significantly behind in time, does it mean he's bound to lose?
Let's focus on FIDE classical chess finals historically.
Caruana is always behind in time control, thinks more, waste more energy.
Statistically speaking, did the players who played faster won more ...
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