Yeah I think the chess world has been quite harsh on Ding in the last year, on his performance and absences, and maybe he’s been a bit hard on himself.
Given that, I think he’s putting up quite a strong fight for this World Championship, and I think some people see him as favorite if it goes into Rapid tiebreaks 
Chess has so much drama. Maybe Go needs more drama to be more popular.
Lol what happened to his principles.
And he’s still wearing jeans.
Lol what happened to his principles.
Well FIDE allowed him to dress as he was, so I think he’s ok in terms of principles.
I guess FIDE needs Magnus more than Magnus needs FIDE
FIDE at first needed buzz and it worked. Lot of free advertising in the medias.
And more drama again.
I can’t imagine a Go tournament splitting the champion lol
Do you think it is okay for a champion to be split?
For a similar situation in Go, it would have to be triple kos three in a roll, and I don’t think Go pros have the influence to go against the sponsors and Go associations hosting them yet (Go pros are fairly dependent on organizing their regular games). So not practical to happen, or even close to having a chance to happen (I cannot recall any finals in international titles ever running into triple kos, let alone 3 in a roll. As for the national title after komi was introduced, the only one that resulted in a void I can recall is one from Cho chikun).
To be fair, if two players have equal skills, I vastly prefer having two champions than deciding through a roulette !
If this was true then it shows that Chess didn’t just become a joke lol
Even if two players have equal skills a lot of things can just be about form on the day. In sports, in mind sports, you can be technically better but just in bad form and still lose because of it, whether draws are allowed for or not.
There’s also the option that they do in some tournaments of deciding with an Armageddon match, where you have to win as white, which the article you link mentions and Fabiano mentions.
It’s basically like komi in Go really, except colours swapped, as White wins ties with the 0.5 Komi.
Even without komi, IIRC, the game ended within 0.5 komi are less than 5% for all pros, and they include both black and white, so the true draw outcome if switched to integer komi is likely less than 3%. And the title tournament finals for Go are usually at least BO3. So even the chance of going into the 4th game is already pretty low, let alone all three in a draw.
I think that’s the problem in Chess. It’s so “easy” to draw especially at the highest level. Hoping to pick a decisive winner from a game where draws appear so often is itself contradictory.
I agree that’s a problem in chess. The funny thing is, I believe it could be easily fixed by changing (removing?) the Stalemate rule - it never made sense to me that a game should be drawn when one side has no legal moves.
The big advantage of chess is (in my opinion), it’s very easy to grasp the goal of the game, and understand when the game ends - compared to go
True but with the opposite disadvantage to be more difficult about the material and rules (movement, different pieces, “en passant”, etc…)
