![]() Also, it opens up the possibility that a challenger could fail despite performing AT LEAST EQUALLY AND MAYBE BETTER over a number of games, depending on whether or not one considers wins as Black as being more difficult than wins as White. ![]() ![]() This would allow the possibility of a champion winning a 9th game and simply resigning the next game at any point, thereby retaining the title (although losing half the prize money). What I don't understand is why Fischer also endorsed the idea of the champion retaining the title when a 9-9 tie (only wins counting) occurs. This broke with tradition and would have made it impossible for World Champions who have a lead in the match to inch ever closer to retaining the title by drawing games. His main idea was that draws should not count in the scoring of the match. My understanding is that Bobby Fischer, in suggesting (demanding?) conditions for the 1975 defense of his title, argued for the superiority of a "first to win 10 games" match over the (by then traditional) best-of-24 games match.
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