Author: Ozgur Aktunc
Date: 16:03:03 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. 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. Kramnik is not the same Kramnik during that match neither his team. He's now 25 years old and at the height of his powers. Would anybody belive that Kramnik,who has lost one game in the last 100 matches or so, may lose to anybody in a series of games. > >... 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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