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Originally Posted by EGarrett
Regarding punishing draws, Fischer wanted to simply award 0 points for them, so the match would only end when there were a certain number of decisive games. I'd be interested to see that, provided of course that there's an upper-limit.
This system was a failure when there was no upper limit of the length (in 1927-37, 1978-85).
If you set a small upper limit, it's unlikely that the required number of wins will be reached, and you'll still have to decide what to do if the score is even (which is going to happen quite often if the opponents are equally worthy). Letting the champion retain the title in this case will result in him playing in a safe, drawish style. Deciding the title on rapid and blitz tiebreaks will favour whoever excels in those formats (finds decent moves, not necessarily interesting ones, faster), which is not exactly the purpose of a classical time control match.
I'm actually afraid that Carlsen's strategy in the hypothetical 2016 match against Caruana will be to play it safe in the classical and rapid parts and then outplay him in the blitz tiebreak because Fabiano's main issue by far is time management.