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What makes Monte Carlo a "World Championship"

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 7 August 2015, at 12:46 a.m.

In Response To: What makes Monte Carlo a "World Championship" (Mick Z)

Mick Z wrote:

Maybe a true World Championship is the one tournament that should be seeded by a committee based on a criteria of past performance.

To me, a World Championship should make a serious effort to determine the best player in the world, and that means not only attracting the strongest candidates, but having a format that reduces the luck-to-skill factor.

In my opinion, a 25-point backgammon match is roughly equivalent to a single chess game, because in both cases an Elo difference of 100 points translates into about a 64% chance of winning. In the old days (mid-20th century), when there was less pressure to keep World Championships short and sweet, the final showdown was a series of 24 games, with the champion retaining the title in case of a 12/12 split. So again in my opinion, the finals of a "world backgammon championship" should be something like a series of 25 25-point matches. If you believe the equation 3 PR = 100 Elo then this means that a 1 PR advantage would make you a 70-30 favorite in such a series. Not perfect but enough to give the winner reasonable bragging rights.

Of course such a thing is infeasible in practice in today's climate.

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