Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 01:39:37 11/04/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 21:12:15, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On November 03, 2003 at 19:51:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>- What KASPAROV is concerned we know that he is no longer the best human player, > >http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml > >1 Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2830 >2 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2777 >3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2766 We can discuss the value of ELO rankings all day long but you won't succeed in twisting the historical fact that Kasparov _lost_ his title match against Kramnik! ELO rankings are a different thing. When Alekhine prepared his title match against Capablanca the latter also was the tournament number one player who almost NEVER lost a single game in his whole career! Still Alekhine managed to win the match against Capablanca and from that moment on he was regarded as the real champ. The same here with Kramnik. Kasparov is out, forget him, his time is over. > > >>because he lost to KRAMNIK fair and straight, and he never was the strongest >>because there is only one candidate for that crown and his name is FISCHER. > >You are a great fan of Fischer not because of chess, but because of his other >opinions (http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer). This forum is hardly the place to >discuss them... Then don't discuss them. It's a form of hypocrisy to start a debate and then accusing the opponent of using the wrong place for the debate. You are a character assassin (see also CTF) if you insinuate that I did NOT mean the chess of Fischer that stands above Kasparov. But every reader can see that I did _only_ speak about Fischer's chess and nothing else. That Fischer has the personality of a genius while Kramnik is more boring, that is a fact. Nothing against Kramnik's outstanding chess, but just do compare Kramnik against the Fritz in Bahrain and Fischer against Spassky in Reykjavik! Fischer beat a whole imperium with dozens of helping GM who were tuned to beat Fischer. Fischer played all on his own, ok, he also needed someone who played chess swimming in a pool. His victory started a new _epoch_ in chess. It was the end of the unbeatable Soviet Union. While Kramniks performance represents symbolically the mere gambling for money of a very _few_ top players who don't care for the World of Chess and rather build up new associations even if only for two players or three. The main thing is that enough show events take place. That was started by Kasparov with his German advisor F. Friedel. It's time to come back to chess. Rolf
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