Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 23:02:24 02/18/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 00:35:21, stuart taylor wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 23:28:37, Carlos Lantigua wrote: > >>Buenos Aires will be by 2nd time venue of world chess championship(In 1927 >>Alekhine defeated Capablanca in Buenos Aires). Kasparov got what he wanted >>although he lost his honor by joining what he called his enemy Iliuzinov. > >So why is Kasparov involved in world championship? >S.Taylor It's like a "unification" fight in boxing. There are currently two claims to the world championship of chess. FIDE and the "private title", which is held by Kramnik. So they're going to settle this nonsense and have a little tournament. Kasparov is going to play Ponomariov, and Kramnik is going to play Leko. The winners of the two matches will play each other for the "world championship". I think it would be great fun to see Ponomariov and Leko play :) But that is probably not likely, and Kasparov will win it back.
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