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Subject: Re: Breaking news: Kramnik to skip Super Final

Author: Tony Nichols

Date: 00:12:45 11/13/04

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On November 12, 2004 at 07:44:23, Albert Silver wrote:

>
>>Kramnik single handedly organized a candidates tournament.
>
>I don't recall him ever single-handedly organizing a thing, much less a
>candidates tournament.
>
>What has fide or
>>Kasparov done? It's funny that you say Kramnik has done nothing to move the
>>cycle forward. In fact he is the only one who has done anything.
>
>Being what? To play? Or do you mean by dropping out of the agreement the cycle
>is moving forward faster, in which case we'll have to disagree on the definition
>of "to move something forward".
>
>                                          Albert
>
>>We are still
>>waiting for the Kasparov-whoever match. Even Kasparov is worried about fide. You
>>can read his open letter on chessbase. If and when the title is unified we
>>should all hope that fide has nothing to do with it.
>>>>Regards
>>>>Tony

Kramnik was responsible for organizing the Dortmund candidates tournament. The
agreement was broken when fide wouldn't present a decent contract to Ponomariov.
Do you trust fide to organize candidates tournaments in the future?
Regards
Tony



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