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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin
Kasparov and Karpov were nearly literally killing each other in their first marathon match.
Yes...and no. If you go back and look at the games from their first match there were a lot of 20-25 move draws.
FWIW, I see the entire World Championship Cycle as just a 2-year long tournament/match series, like the Grand Chess Tour. The worshiping of the title feels more fetish than sport to me. Since this is not the 1920s, we don't need a series to tell us who the best player is. We can already do that easily with ELO ratings.
Last edited by DrChesspain; 11-12-2018 at 11:10 PM.