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Subject: Re: No Worldchampionship, just the two strongest players

Author: Mike S.

Date: 19:15:13 10/24/00

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On October 24, 2000 at 19:20:26, Michael Cummings wrote:

>On October 24, 2000 at 17:45:32, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On October 24, 2000 at 16:52:53, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>On October 24, 2000 at 16:45:23, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 24, 2000 at 15:53:34, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In my view this is just a personal match between the two strongest players the
>>>>>last years and no championship match. Kasparov failed to defend his title and
>>>>>the world cup is now somewhere else. (...)
>
>I am not sure, but I suppose many opinions are floating around

Just imagine Kramnik wins this match, and the relatively better
known-to-the-world Karpov wins the FIDE WCh. Who's the champion then? The chess
world knows who is Kramnik, but actually Kasparov can't pass on a Champion's
title to Kramnik. If he can't keep it, it's gone. IMO.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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