Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!lazarus From: lazarus@ucbvax.ARPA (Andy Lazarus) Newsgroups: net.games.chess Subject: Re: New rigged world title rules Message-ID: <10412@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 17:18:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10412 Posted: Tue Sep 17 17:18:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:14:21 EDT References: <475@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <22300007@uiucdcsp> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 10 Summary: FIDE has changed 3-way playoff system A recent press release from the US Chess Federation states that the FIDE (World Chess Fed.) congress in Graz, Austria has modified the world championship rules. The 3-way playoff, with its possibilities for collusion, has been abolished. The top finishers in the Interzonals will play knockout matches to determine one challenger. This challenger then plays a match vs. the loser of the current match. (Actually, if Kasparov wins, against the loser of the February re-match.)