Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:29:40 11/13/04
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On November 13, 2004 at 05:36:03, Torstein Hall wrote:
>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.
No, he wasn't responsible for organizing it, and no, he didn't organize it.
Einstein TV organized it, and their chess advisor was IM Malcolm Pein, not
Kramnik.
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!
That's what I'd like to know.
Albert
>
>Torstein
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