Re: [sumo] kaio chances

["Joshua A. Reyer" <circlejar@comcast.net>]

thierry.perran@club-internet.fr wrote:

> All of this interesting discussion is generating by this unwritten yokozuna promotion system. For a lot of reasons, this looks unfair to some rikishi, like Kaio right now. But I just want to make a parallel to another sport world (yes it is !), the chess world. We had exactely the same problem, I mean the opaque way to choose the chess world champion. Untill World war two, there was absolutely no rule to set a chess world championship. When someone found a way to be considered as the chess world champion,
> he simply chose a challenger, who put money on the table, to defend his title. This is quite unfair, as, most of the time, the champion avoid to fight a too talented challenger. Some great match-ups never happened and will be missed forever. In case the challenger won, he may never give a revenge match to the former champion. This is exaxtely what Alexander Alekhine did to Jose Luis Capablanca in his lifetime.
>  

Man, I'm still ticked about Staunton ducking Morphy.  "Oh, I'm busy with 
my Complete Works of Shakespeare!"  Yeah, riiiight....

Josh Reyer

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