<story><title>Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision</title><url>https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux1968</author><text>That really seems to favor black by a rather large margin.  Wonder if there are any stats on the win ratios for each color in this format.   And how do they decide who get&amp;#x27;s each color?</text></item><item><author>z92</author><text>Armageddon :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;the players proceed to a single game of Armageddon, where the parameters are set to so far as possible give each side a 50-percent chance of winning—White gets 5 minutes, Black gets 4 minutes, and a draw will make Black the World Champion.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>If anyone doesn&amp;#x27;t know, &amp;quot;Armageddon&amp;quot; is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it&amp;#x27;s not just a click-bait title.  It&amp;#x27;s the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen&amp;#x27;s superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decision-has-sent-the-world-chess-championship-to-overtime&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decisi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>A fairer approach might be to auction the time. i.e. each player bids on number of minutes (or perhaps 10 second intervals?), the highest bid takes black with the win-on-draw condition and that many minutes taken from the 5 minute time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision</title><url>https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux1968</author><text>That really seems to favor black by a rather large margin.  Wonder if there are any stats on the win ratios for each color in this format.   And how do they decide who get&amp;#x27;s each color?</text></item><item><author>z92</author><text>Armageddon :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;the players proceed to a single game of Armageddon, where the parameters are set to so far as possible give each side a 50-percent chance of winning—White gets 5 minutes, Black gets 4 minutes, and a draw will make Black the World Champion.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>If anyone doesn&amp;#x27;t know, &amp;quot;Armageddon&amp;quot; is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it&amp;#x27;s not just a click-bait title.  It&amp;#x27;s the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen&amp;#x27;s superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decision-has-sent-the-world-chess-championship-to-overtime&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decisi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>It could make sense to instead let the players bid for black (ie, winning draws), in units of time-differential, similar to this idea for auctioning off 1st possession in a USA-Football  overtime by starting yard-line:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slate.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;why-the-nfl-should-replace-the-overtime-coin-toss-with-an-auction-system.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slate.com&amp;#x2F;culture&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;why-the-nfl-should-replace...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>