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

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 02:36:03 11/13/04

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On November 13, 2004 at 03:12:45, Tony Nichols wrote:

>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

You better tell us what was not decent in the contract/agreement proposed to
Ponomariov then!

Torstein



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