Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 15:39:25 11/11/04
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On November 11, 2004 at 07:36:56, Albert Silver wrote: > >>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 > >> >> >> 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. >> >>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 Hi Albert I think its unfair to compare Kramnik to Alekhine. The system was set up differently back then. Now we have chaos. Does anyone think that if Kasparov becomes champ again things will change? I think Kasparov will start to dictate orders like he has in the past. This is not good for chess. Kramnik seems willing to work with all sincere parties and even fide. Kasparov has only one interest in mind. His legacy. This is fine but the good of chess should come first. Regards Tony
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