Author: Bill Gletsos
Date: 23:36:31 10/14/00
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On October 14, 2000 at 22:52:00, Lin Harper wrote: >On October 14, 2000 at 15:26:37, chris sergel wrote: > >>1: Kasparov has always been favorable to Kramnik. He has stated he thought >>Kramnik would be the next world champion. He has gone out of his way to seek a >>match with Kramnik (first, the Shirov Kramnik match, which, unfortunately the >>wrong man won), then a decision - to hell with all qualifiers just decide who to >>fact. >>2: Kramnik is obviously a wonderful chessplayer but he did not earn the right to >>face Kasparov and is arguably not stonger than Anand and a (very) few others. >>3: Kramnik has done poorly in match play in the past. >>4: Kasparov has gone out of his way to promote chess (like the match against >>"Sting"). I think this is wonderful. Nevertheless, >> >>Probably this is simply what can happen when an over-confident champion faces a >>well-prepared and talented opponent. >>I'm not completely sure that this is the case. > When the invincible Capablanca played Alekhine it was similar to this > match, most people favouring Capa, including Capa himself. But Alekhine > was better prepared, and keener. History repeating itself. But I believe > this match is not FIDE endorsed, altough I could have heard wrong. If that > is the case, then Kasparov is still the official champion regardless of the > outcome. FIDE doesnt consider Kasparov the official champion at all. They havent since FIDE stripped him of the title back in March 1993. FIDE considered Karpov champion after his defeat of Timman in Sept-Nov 1993 up until Las Vegas last year when Khalifman became FIDE champion.
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