Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 01:01:47 03/06/02
Go up one level in this thread
On March 05, 2002 at 21:31:10, Tim Mirabile wrote: >I have nothing against Ponomariov, but the fact that he has to prove that he >belongs among the elite players even after winning the FIDE Championship just >shows what a farce the FIDE Championship is. > He does not have to prove anything playing wise (except what all elite chessplayers has to prove) nobody can win an event like fide knockout, wether we like this event or not, without belonging to the elite. What he is doing now in Linares is proving sceptics wrong, others already knew that his rating was/is justified. Most people i have talked to that did not care for pono's result did not do so, because they rather saw ivanchuck winning, not because they did not like the event :) I think that the real farce was the statements made by ivanchuck after the match where he credited his loss to the timecontrol and in his own words "other mysterious factors" :) he said that pono did not play good, but where does that leave his own skills?? agreed i don't like fide i don't like their timecontrols, but the conditions were the same for both players and pono won! In Linares he again beat ivanchuck, this time using standard Time control.... so where is chucky now with his claims?? Regards Jonas
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.