Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:09:03 08/20/99
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On August 20, 1999 at 13:38:22, James Robertson wrote: [snip] > >We can say that FIDE is able to control and award 'the' title of World Champion >because they have been doing just that since 194x. > >But since they have the right by 'tradition' to award the title, why don't they >obey the rules set up by 'tradition' to decide who gets the title? > >When you change the format, etc. to get the title, it is no longer the same >title. The title that FIDE awards is 'FIDE WC' and not 'WC'. > >James Let me ask you yet another set of questions. Wasn't Lasker considered World Champion? He didn't play 20 or 24 game formats. And Lasker didn't play under FIDE. Didn't Alekhine play under FIDE? Wasn't he World Champion (not the "FIDE World Champion" only)? Did he play in the same format as Kasparov/Karpov (the answer is no)? Wasn't Kasparov considered World Champion when he beat Karpov? My point is that formats change. There has been probably a dozen formats since Morphy. But ALL of the winners were consider World Champion. To make little of the tournament when 100 of the world's best players considered it important enough to show up is showing a lack of respect to those other players. Granted: Kasparov, Anand, Morozevich, Karpov, and S. Polgar did not show up. But this does not mean that this is NOT a World Championship tournament. Just because Kasparov went off and formed his own association does not mean that the VAST majority of top players do not still acknowledge the FIDE championship as the World Championship. You know darn well that EVERY ONE of them would proclaim themself as World Champion if they won. And that's basically 100 of the top 105 players in the world. Also, the "tradition" of FIDE that you have been talking about started in 1924 and took over the chore of World Championship in 1946. It has 5 million members worldwide. How many members does the PCA have? Whatever happened to the Kasparov Karpov reunification match? Whatever happened to the Kasparov Shirov match? Regardless of his claims and his tournament results outside of championship matches, Kasparov has still to deliver the goods (since 1995). Maybe he will with his match with Anand. For all of it's problems, at least FIDE is willing to hold a World Championship match, invite ALL of the top players (not just one and that one is #4 on the PCA list), and let them duke it out. When was the last time that the PCA did that? Will you consider the winner of the Kasparov / Anand match (if it happens) to be the TRUE World Champion? And why does Anand get that opportunity when Shirov is rated #2 and Kramnik is rated #3 in the PCA rating list? Could it be that Kasparov is ducking Shirov a second time and ducking Kramnik who has a winning record against him? We could argue this until the cows come home, but the bottom line is that FIDE invites everyone and runs a fair tournament whereas the PCA is controlled by Kasparov who determines who his opponent will be in order to "study up" and ensure that he wins. Bogus. Kasparov may be the best player in the world, but he isn't the World Champion if he doesn't give the entire field the chance to beat him and hand picks his opponents each time. KarinsDad :)
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