Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:52:02 04/04/98
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On April 03, 1998 at 21:13:34, ramon b. de robles wrote: > >On April 03, 1998 at 18:10:32, Scott Carmichael wrote: > >> Karpov has the FIDE title, Kasparov has the PCA title, >>so that makes two players who rank above Anand. No offense, but I'm sure >>one of them will feel slighted. So the real question is, which one isn't >>better than Anand ( who I believe to be weaker than Shirov in reality)? > >If we would look at the new FIDE Rating, you would note that although >Karpov holds the FIDE title, his elo rating is lower than Kasparov, >Anand & Kramnik. Chess buffs are now rooting for a match-up between >Anand & Kramnik but it seems nobody is biting it. About the loss of >Anand to Karpov, we should consider that Anand experienced some mind >zapping, gruesome matches before reaching the finals. When he faced a >very fresh Karpov, we somehow predicted that Karpov will emerged victor >. We are right, but Anand fought brilliantly . After the FIDE match, we >can see that Karpov fared poorly (maybe due to exhaustion) in the next >tourney while Anand / Kramnik has a better record. this last point doesn't really matter. In the last GM tourney I watched on ICC (Linares I think) Kasparov did poorly and Shirov won.
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