Author: James Robertson
Date: 14:15:23 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, It was two years ago, if I remember correctly. Since then, Kramnik has trounced Shirov winning at least two games against him and losing none. I think that in a Kramnik - Shirov match, Shirov would be sadly outclassed.... James >but Kasparov didn't like to face him in a match for the World title. The Spanish >press mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Shirov went to court to fight for his >clear right to be the candidate to the World Championship. > >So let's expect a final match between Kramnik and Shirov to decide who is the >real World Champion. > >Tomas. > >... by the way, although I consider Shirov to be the best chess player in the >world today, I know that he has just lost a game some hours ago in the Olympics >in Istambul against Boris Gelfand... ;-)
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