Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:21:08 10/16/04
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On October 16, 2004 at 18:15:07, Graham Banks wrote: >On October 16, 2004 at 17:50:26, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On October 16, 2004 at 17:04:25, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>My prediction is that Kramnik will win the last game and keep the Title with a >>>score of 7 to 7 :-) >> >>In 1910 Lasker with white pieces had to win the last game against Schlechter to >>hold his title. Schlechter missed a win and later a draw to lose the game. >> >>In 1985 Karpov with white pieces had to win the last game against Kasparov to >>hold his title, but he lost the game (the game is remembered by every Sicilian >>Scheveningen lover). >> >>Two years later, in 1987 it was Kasparov with white pieces who had to win the >>last game against Karpov to hold his title. He managed to win the game, after >>several blunders by both sides during the game. >> >>I don't remember any successful attempt at winning the last game with black >>pieces. So at least statistics is not on Kramnik's side. > But Kramnik will be White. Sorry, my mistake. But even then, there was a time when the name "Leko" was also used as a synonym for "draw" :) >> >>> >>>Jorge
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