Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 05:03:55 10/19/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 00:54:48, Vikrant Malvankar wrote: >On October 18, 2004 at 13:20:30, Terry Giles wrote: > >>On October 18, 2004 at 13:12:55, Tanya Deborah wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>>Vladi won without played d2-d4 in all the match!! >>> >>>He is a great player!!! >>> >>> >>>[Event "World Chess Championship (Game 14)"] >>>[Site "?"] >>>[Date "2004.??.??"] >>>[Round "?"] >>>[White "Vladimir Kramnik"] >>>[Black "Peter Leko"] >>>[Result "1-0"] >>>[ECO "B12"] >>>[WhiteElo "2760"] >>>[BlackElo "2740"] >>>[PlyCount "81"] >>> >>>1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h6 5. g4 Bd7 6. Nd2 c5 7. dxc5 e6 8. Nb3 Bxc5 >>>9. Nxc5 Qa5+ 10. c3 Qxc5 11. Nf3 Ne7 12. Bd3 Nbc6 13. Be3 Qa5 14. Qd2 Ng6 15. >>>Bd4 Nxd4 16. cxd4 Qxd2+ 17. Kxd2 Nf4 18. Rac1 h5 19. Rhg1 Bc6 20. gxh5 Nxh5 21. >>>b4 a6 22. a4 Kd8 23. Ng5 Be8 24. b5 Nf4 25. b6 Nxd3 26. Kxd3 Rc8 27. Rxc8+ Kxc8 >>>28. Rc1+ Bc6 29. Nxf7 Rxh4 30. Nd6+ Kd8 31. Rg1 Rh3+ 32. Ke2 Ra3 33. Rxg7 Rxa4 >>>34. f4 Ra2+ 35. Kf3 Ra3+ 36. Kg4 Rd3 37. f5 Rxd4+ 38. Kg5 exf5 39. Kf6 Rg4 40. >>>Rc7 Rh4 41. Nf7+ 1-0 >>> >>> >>>Tanya D. >> >>Thanks for posting the pgn file Tanya, the official web site just went down as >>usual at the critical moment! >>We can control robot vehicles on Mars, travel to anywhere in the world in less >>than a day but are incapable of reliably transmitting a single chess game over >>the Internet! >> >>Congratulations to Vladimir Kramnik, he had to win and he did, but remember he >>didn't beat Peter Leko he only drew the match. He had the advantage of not >>having to win, a drawn match was enough. > >There should be a playoff and why to have a rule that allows Kramnik to win the >match even if he draws, he was not the official champiuon of FIDE. These age old >rules of FIDE give undue advantage to one player and make the game more >uninteresting nowhere in any sport nowadays a champion given so much leeway. >Remember Chess is not only an art but also a sport and to mke it more commercial >and interesting we should have fair rules.(This reunification in itself is >unfair). It is upto us the lovers of the game to decide how the system and game >should be played and not an organisation like FIDE which fails in every >department. > >Regards > >Vikrant I happen to agree If Kramnik was not Fide champion He should not have been given draw odds I wonder Will Kasparov have draw odds in his match ? Who will have draw odds in a k-k match Tom
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