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In article <369@ssc-bee.UUCP> ditzel@ssc-bee.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
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>+ The champion gets a rematch in the event he loses.  This happened in
>  Botvinnik-Tal World Championship matches (again two Soviet chess
>  players).  First Tal defeated Botvinnik ,  Botvinnik got his rematch
>  a year later and defeated Tal.  First I think the fact that in this
>  case were Botvinnik defeats Tal in the rematch suggests that Tal was
>  not stronger than Botvinnik and Tal didn't deserve the world champion-
>  ship.  So  basically the champion has a second try,  why not!
>  1) it should make for more exciting chess - as it did in both Tal-
>  Botvinnik matches, and 2) the world champion is given a chance to
>  redeem his previous performance.
>
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Here I must disagree. Talj won the first match against Botvinnik showing
great superiority of play, he was great and brilliant.
    He was then taken sick and had great health problems and lost the
rematch. He shouldn't have played, but he tried in spite of his health.
In fact, at the time, it raised quite some noise that they didn't put it
off until he was better.
    Other than that I agree on your points about the rules, although
they reflect the sad fact that in this decade we don't have brilliant
players who can achieve scores such as "Fisher-Larsen: 6-0" and
"Fisher-Tajmanov: 6-0".....
					Mark Galassi
				...!tektronix!reed!rosalia