Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 02:51:35 10/16/04
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On October 15, 2004 at 11:10:01, Dmitri wrote: >On October 15, 2004 at 02:41:09, Tony Nichols wrote: > >>On October 15, 2004 at 02:10:05, Bigler David wrote: >> >>>Dear all, >>> >>>Ok this has nothing to do with computers… >>>This match is the must non interesting match I have ever seen. >>>Even the matches from Schlechter were much more interesting to see. >>> >>>I live in Switzerland at around 4hous by car of the “event” and wanted to go and >>>see the players. >>>Hopefully I decided not to go and the day I decided that they made a draw after >>>16 moves. >>> >>>8 hours driving just to see a draw in 16 moves would have been to much. >>> >>>I was a real fan of Kramnik in the 19th and beginning 2k, he was really amazing. >>>The way he plays today is for me really not understandable. >>>I don’t want to withdraw the merit of Leko, he did a good fight and if he wins, >>>he just deserve it ! >>> >>>But let play Morozevitch Kasparov Anand Topalov Shirov or Carlsen (Hydra ?), >>>these guys all have the fighting spirit ! >>> >>>rgds >> >> >> I agree that this is not the most exciting match of all time, but in my opinion >>the Kasparov-Kramnik match was worse. I think Kasparov gets the blame for that. >>He offered way too many draws with the white pieces. Topalov got his chance >>against Leko at Dortmund 2002. He's simply not strong enough. Morozevitch is an >>enigma. One year he's awesome and the next only good. Anand? Well let's not >>forget the first 8 games were drawn in his match against Kasparov 1995. Kasparov >>wins one game and Anand falls apart. Carlsen doesnt deserve to be mentioned with >>this group, Many are stronger than he is right now. >> I think we will see exciting chess in the Kasparov-Kashimdzhonov match but I >>don't think either of them can beat Kramnik or Leko in a match right now. >> Just my opinion but Kasparov is no longer playing 2800 level chess, maybe not >>even 2750. He will not be World Champion again! >> >>Tony > >This kind of logic is why politics can't take off in Russian, people pick >presidents by looking at how good their smile is!!! Chess is not boxing or a >martial arts competition. It is a hard fought war with "on" and "off" days these >guys are not playing for coffee cakes. And your judgment of the playing strength >of Kasparov is like an ant picking the winner of sumo wrestling competition. In >fact 95% of all chess players dont understand chess the top 10 players play >without computers so your 2800 and 2750 level comparisions are meaningless. I don't claim to understand chess at the 2800 level. I am just going by his performance rating in the last couple of years. Clearly whatever he did to become 2800+ is not what he's doing now. P.S. Don't forget that theoretical ant has 50/50 chance to be right! Tony "Ant" Nichols
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