Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:55:45 11/04/00
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On November 03, 2000 at 09:17:06, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On November 03, 2000 at 08:29:25, José Carlos wrote: > >> Kramnik won Kasparov; Shirov won Kramnik. So Shirov has more right to be >>called world champion than Kramnik, but it's still absurd. What about Anand? and >>the rest of strong players in the world?. That match means nothing but a match. >>Ok, Kramnik won a match to Kasparov: nothing more, nothing less. >> In my opinion, there's no world title nowadays. But that's another story... >> >> Just my opinion. >> >> José C. > >I agree with your opinions entirely, José. We have a rating list (BGN) champion >(Kramnik) and a FIDE champion (Khalifman), a couple of disgruntled champions >(Karpov and Fischer) and someone who feel cheated (Shirov). If you add a handful >of strong GM's that didn't get a chance, we have utter confusion. So you're >right, there isn't any unanimous World Champion. Take your pick, there's a >champion for everyone :o). > >Mogens. The champion was a good champion, but the federation was not a good federation. So all hell broke loose. I think FIDE is the best organization to administer the title in the long term. But they messed up and the title has left. The title needs to be reunified. Fischer may have had some claim to the title if he had not gone insane and gone into a bunker for twenty years. Like it or not, we got Karpov, and eventually Kasparov. Kasparov left FIDE but he still played championship matches against strong players, so I think a good argument can be made for the legitimacy of that title. Now Kramnik has it. That's my opinion. I think that others could have the opinion that Khalifman is the champion. Shirov, bless him, has not beaten the reigning champion, any way you slice it, so it is difficult to call him champion of anything. I think we have three guys who deserve to fight it out for the real title. I'm not sure how this can be accomplished, but I hope that they do end up playing against each other in official matches at some point. I would think that this is probably possible since there seems to be a lot of money out there. bruce
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