Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 06:43:41 01/01/98
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On January 01, 1998 at 01:35:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: Who takes this FIDE show serious as a "world championship" anyway? 1. The mode the games were played (often decided by blitzing) does not lead to serious chess results compared to the old match rules. Most GMs probably played this to earn a lot of money fast and having some fun, nothing else... 2. The 'lex Karpov' (how many extra-rules designed for him has he got in his chess career?) is absolutely ridiculous: having one player with the provilge to see the others play lots of nerv-taking and strenght-taking rounds and then playing against the exhausted winner of this game show. My only pleasure is that he will have to play Anand, the only player being able to play this mode and still being well and alive enough to beat Karpov after beating anyone else coming his way (as long as Kramnik and Kasparov are not spoiling this pleasure). So it will not be quite as easy for Karpov to become pseudo-world-champion as it was designed before. Kind regards from Dirk >On December 31, 1997 at 19:44:52, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On December 31, 1997 at 15:28:28, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>congratulations to anand for reaching the finals of the FIDE circus.My >>>best wishes to him for winning the finals also. >> >>I have to agree on that one! I hope Vishy will win the final, because I >>think he fully deserves it! >> >>Best regards, Jeroen Noomen > >My only comment is that I think that FIDE has gone totally insane with >the way the challenger is chosen. IE for those not knowing, this came >down to a blitz match between two players (Anand and Adams), which seems >like a totally [stupid, idiotic, insane, or any other adjective inserted >here] way to choose the challenger. > >What are they thinking about I wonder? Obviously not the way to choose >the strongest challenger. The old candidates matches were better than >this >nonsense...
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