Talk:FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
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I beleive the "Chg" column in the crosstable to be inaccurate. As stellar as Topalov's performance was, he is not going to gain 102 rating points for it, for a world-record rating of 2890. His true point gain will be impressive enough. --Fritzlein 20:48, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- No, that column means his performance rating was 102 points above his current rating, if I'm not mistaken. --Ryan Delaney talk 22:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- Ah, right you are. Those look exactly like performance rating numbers. It isn't wrong numbers, it is a misleading column heading of "Chg". --Fritzlein 15:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
An interesting question is, under what terms was Kramnik invited to play? Would he have had to sign a contract to recognize the winner at San Luis as the Champion? If so, it is quite understandable that he would decline to play. --Fnord
[edit] second/third place
I reverted the standings and placed Anand second again, above Svidler, because that was their result according to the rules used in the tournament. As the article says, the first tie-break was the direct result between the two players (two draws in this case), the second tie-break was the number of wins (Anand 5, Svidler 4). Anyway, don't change the horizontal positions in a crosstable without changing the verticals as well! (update: that last remark is also a note to self) David Sneek 07:24, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] THE World Championship???
Putting aside those, including myself, who think this tournament obviously had nothing to do with the World Championship whatsoever (the World Championship is a one-on-one match between the sitting title-holder and the challenger)... the idea that this supertournament was THE World Championship is just ludicrous. This is, at the least, debated. In the opinion of many (most? I would hope), it isn't even connected with the World Championship at all. Double round robins of this caliber are not world championships, they're supertournaments. There's a difference. The World Champion is not determined by tournament play, but by match play.
