WC: Half time control of last time and no full championship privilege for Wesley unlike Magnus?

See here: Regulations for the 2022 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship

What do you think?

# Championship privilege - full for Magnus, partial for Wesley:

• 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021:
  • Magnus has the full championship privilege to face just 1 challenger.
• 2022:
  • Wesley has to face more than 1 challenger: Group stage and then knockout stage. Eh, at least it's partial championship privilege in that Wesley doesn't have to start from scratch unlike the world rapid & world blitz cases.

# Time controls - half compared to last time:

• 2019 WFRCC:
  • Slow rapid: 45 min for 40 moves + 15 min for the rest
  • Fast rapid: 15 min + 2 s increment --> Ok fine, but at least the winners of the slow rapid portions were the winners of their matches.
• 2022 WFRCC:
  • All: 30 moves in 25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for the rest of the game, plus (...)

Магнус должен пройти через общий отбор (как и все), чтобы сыграть с Уэсли.

@A-T_A-S said in #2:

Магнус должен пройти через общий отбор (как и все), чтобы сыграть с Уэсли.

hi romanovchess, for each of the last 4 world chess championships, magnus got to face only 1 opponent: whoever won the candidates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2014 --> just vishy won 2014 candidates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2016 --> just sergey who won 2016 candidates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2018 --> just fabi who won 2018 candidates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2021 --> just nepo who won 2020-21 candidates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2020%E2%80%932021

see it's just 1 person each. so, a priori, magnus has 50-50 chances of winning.

magnus vs vishy

magnus vs sergey

magnus vs fabi

magnus vs nepo

but now in the chess960 world championship, they don't have a 'candidates' and winner faces wesley 1v1. it's rather an 8-way

wesley vs magnus vs nepo vs hikaru vs matthias vs vladimir vs nodirbek vs Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson.

so, a priori, wesley has 12.5-87.5 chances of winning only.

seems unfair?

У чемпиона 960 гораздо меньше привилегий, несправедливо

@A-T_A-S said in #4:

У чемпиона 960 гораздо меньше привилегий, несправедливо
huhuhu thanks

This Championship is a joke, FIDE basically doesn't care about Fischer Random. The variant should have its own federation.

@alvarohigino said in #6:

This Championship is a joke, FIDE basically doesn't care about Fischer Random. The variant should have its own federation.

God bless you. Why exactly do you say it is a joke though? Apparently some people disagree with my reasons why it is a joke even though they agree with my conclusion that it is a joke.

More here: https://reddit.com/xsbn68

@alvarohigino said in #6:

This Championship is a joke, FIDE basically doesn't care about Fischer Random. The variant should have its own federation.

btw if sergey karjakin creates a new federation, then do you think sergey will have better luck if it's pure 9LX as opposed to either pure chess or mixed chess-and-9LX ?