Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:26:37 12/07/01
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On December 06, 2001 at 03:11:53, Ed Schröder wrote: >On December 06, 2001 at 01:35:41, Dr. Franklin wrote: > >> >> I think the most interesting challenger for Rebel would be A. Morozevich, or >>perhaps Peter Leko. I wouldn't mind seeing Seirwan play either. > >I can not reveal the name of the top-10 player yet. Unfortunately one of >the main organizers unexpectedly recently died so the whole match has an >insecure status at the moment, maybe things will be delayed or cancelled, >anything is possible. > >The organizers of the "v/d Wiel - Rebel Century 3" match of last January >wanted a clearly stronger opponent for Rebel and contracted a 2700 player >to play a new 6 game match on tournament time control. > >Keep your fingers crossed, I know I do. > >Ed Sometimes things goes slow, sometimes things go fast. Here is the latest fresh info. - GM Loek van Wely vs Rebel Century 4 - 4 tournament games (40/2h + 30/all) - Place: Maastricht, the Netherlands - Date: Februari 19-22 - Hardware: fast Athlon - Elo GM Loek van Wely 2714 Latest FIDE rating list: 1 Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2838 13.04.63 M 2 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2809 25.06.75 M 3 Fischer, Robert J g USA 2780 M i 4 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2770 11.12.69 M 5 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2742 18.07.77 M 6 Leko, Peter g HUN 2739 08.09.79 M 7 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2733 15.03.75 M 8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 18.03.69 M 9 Adams, Michael g ENG 2731 17.11.71 M 10 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2719 21.11.66 M 11 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2717 02.06.74 M i 12 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2714 07.10.72 M More extensive info later on the Rebel Home Page. Ed
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