Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:36:56 11/11/04
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>Kasparov did a favour to kramnik by agreeing to play with him.
>Kasparov could say easily that kramnik does not qualify because kramnik lost
>against shirov and refuse to play against kramnik.
You beat me to it. I was going to say that I don't remember Kramnik qualifying
to play against Kasparov at all. He was just handed the chance to play in the
final. He no doubt regrets this decision against Kramnekhine. I have the book by
Winter on Capablanca, and it is fascinating to see how many times Alekhine
seemed like he was giving Capablanca a fair chance, but somehow there was a
clause or paragraph that made the whole thing impossible at the last minute.
Albert
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> I'm sure he regrets it now. I
>>think the rematch clause is unfair. It means the champion has a built in
>>advantage. Smyslov had a plus score against Botvinnik in world championship play
>>but he only won one match. Kasparov did not refuse a match with Karpov. Karpov
>>had to qualify and was beaten by Nigel Short.
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>This was only after karpov lost more than one match against Kasparov.
>
>Maybe it was unfair but kasparov had relatively worse conditions and needs to
>win 2 matches to get the title back.
>
>Kasparov already agreed to worse conditions then the condition that karpov had
>against him.
>
>Uri
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