Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 18:58:06 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. > >... 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... ;-) one loss doesn't constitute what the player is and his present day strength. I think Shirov should've played Shirov (Leon on ICC) for the title but it didn't work out that unfortunately. It is funny though that no backing could be found for the GK vs. Shirov match but when it came time for Kramnik money was found pretty readily ... Not that Kramnik doesn't deserve a shot cause he certainly does and I praise him for his good play verse GK but I do feel Shirov got screwed for sure and he is the forgotten man in this scenario.
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