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Subject: Re: Shirov was stolen. he should have been THE CANDIDATE.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:24:37 11/02/00

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On November 02, 2000 at 16:11:44, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>On November 02, 2000 at 15:38:07, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2000 at 15:06:21, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>
>>>Well, it seems that lazy Kaspy can't win the young Kramnik. Now let's see a real
>>>bloody fight! Guess what? I think that Shirov would win!
>>>
>>>A. Ponti
>>
>>I think it would be much more interesting to have one World Champion instead of
>>two, so I hope Kramnik decides to play in the FIDE championships.
>>
>>Besides, Shirov has to qualify before meeting Kramnik. It isn't professional
>>boxing even though you can easily confuse the two.
>>
>>Mogens.
>
>If my info is right, Shirov won Kramnik no so long ago in a preliminary match,
>but Kasparov didn't like to face him in a match for the World title.

I know that shirov won a match in order to play against kasparov but I did not
know that kasparov did not like to play against shirov.

I thought that the problem was that the sponsor did not like to pay for a match
between kasparov and shirov.

Uri



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