Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 09:28:30 01/09/98
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Hi Howard, On January 09, 1998 at 11:52:20, Howard Exner wrote: >On January 09, 1998 at 11:23:06, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: > >>It looks like all my hopes for an Anand win were in vain :-) > >>Congratulations to Karpov for playing that strong, though I still don't >>regard as a world championship according to the high standards of >>previous events of that kind, and though I still think the modus (Karpov >>not having to play any games before the final in an event played in such >>short time)it is absolutely incompatible with any kind of true >>sportsmanship. > >I agree that the seeding logic will need some revision for the next >event. >Again it was too bad that the other seeded player, Kasparov, was a no >show. >It would then have been possibly something like the winner of >Kasparov-Adams >vs the winner of Karpov-Anand. > >Karpov fully deserves the crown as once again he showed up for the >fight. Yes. That's the thing I find most remarkable about the whole thing: in critical moment's he still plays great. But we should not forget: when Anand played Karpov he already had played tiring matches including playoffs against some of the best players of the world, having no chance to really recover from that. This was simply extremely unfair. Don't forget about Kramnik: he impressed me by having the only correct choice not to play for such a FIDE title in such more than questionable circumstances. And Kramnik shurely is the number two at the moment, not Karpov - with all due respect to his skill. >The younger players will have to wait for the next cycle. Do you think >there will be a unification match with Kasparov-Karpov? I'm thinking >not. I think not and I hope not ;-) The only world championship I would be interested in at the moment would be another KK: Kasparov-Kramnik. Or perhaps a normal candidates match (no blitz at all!!) between Kramnik and Karpov, and who wins that is qualified to play Kasparov. Or playing a real challenger tournament with serious time controls (similar like the FIDE once did in this century), having the best 6 or 8 players decide for the Kasparov challenger, of course without any extra rules for Karpov, who has no right to call himself world champion of anything concerning chess in my eyes, whatever formal arguments were and are used for doing so... Whatever, but of course it is quite a joke from the FIDE to presume that the kind of championship they organized, although being quite an entertaining event at high level, could ever qualify the winner for playing Kasparov. Hardly this way! Kasparov could and I think will only smile about such a funny idea... Kind regards from Dirk
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