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Subject: Re: congratulations to anand

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 08:03:40 01/01/98

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On January 01, 1998 at 01:35:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

Still, the highest rated player and the favourite managed to battle
his way through this system. And Karpov-Anand will be an interesting
match. As far as I am concerned: my heart is with Vishy.

Jeroen



>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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