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Subject: Re: OT: Kramnik is not the champion of anything (IMO)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:20:25 11/04/00

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On November 04, 2000 at 14:55:55, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On November 04, 2000 at 13:55:45, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>That's somewhat close to what I believe to be the right solution. The
>unification of the title should happen under FIDE IMO even if the organization
>is much less than perfect. Deciding between only three players is much too few
>to be a valid solution, unless its primary aim is finding a single World
>Champion. That should be followed rather quickly by a candidate cycle.
>
>>I would think that this is probably possible since there seems to be a lot of
>>money out there.
>
>I don't think that is a correct estimation. The Deep Blue match ruined a lot of
>interest in the human vs. human confrontation at the chessboard.

I do not know if this is the case.
Is there a proof for this statement?

 The different
>federations and associations didn't exactly help either. Without publicity there
>will be no significant funding.
>
>There's reason to doubt that BGN will survive financially without Kasparov as
>front. Time will tell.

What is the reason that the BGN needs kasparov to survive?

Uri



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