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Subject: Re: This is just another prearranged Championship to keep Kramnik!

Author: Vikrant Malvankar

Date: 21:14:00 09/29/04

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On September 29, 2004 at 06:41:42, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>On September 29, 2004 at 02:14:46, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:
>
>>>How do you know that ? Where is that quote from Leko that says that ?
>>I said Leko will be the first one to admit (not that he has already admitted)a
>>such he has long back admitted the same in an interview.
>
>URL where we can read the text of the interview please, and the "long back" part
>: we live now and here and chess playing strength changes through the years.
>
>[...SNIP...]
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>[... MORE RAMBLINGS REMOVED ...]
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>I see the problem as beeing simple. There are competition rules and the
>candidates play a number of matches according to those rules. The one that
>scores highest number of points in the ends gets to play for the title. This
>time Leko qualified. What's the bloody problem ?

Well I am not against Leko or anyone else qualifying but Kramnik given a direct
entry in semis and Anand denied the same. Even though Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik
are on par in terms of pure Chess Strength (Politics not included). Leko comes
Fourth, kasimdazov comes nowhere. why is FIDE so stupid and takes opinions of
World no.1 & 2 in ReUnification. It does not happen anywhere in any other sport.

Regards

Vikrant
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>
>Andrei



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