Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 09:49:53 03/07/05
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On March 07, 2005 at 12:35:15, Gabor Szots wrote: >On March 07, 2005 at 09:20:49, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On March 07, 2005 at 01:53:06, Gabor Szots wrote: >> >>>>P.S 2 Whoever wins Linares, in my book, is the WCC! I give Kasparov the nod, but >>>>Anand stills has a small chance to overtake Kasparov. >>> >>>Why Linares? A tournament with only 7 players of whom 2 are only spectators? A >>>tournament missing, among others, Kramnyik? >>> >>>Anyway, you shouls have made this statement before round 1... >>> >>>Gábor >> >>Why not? And why before round 1? > >Because then you could not know the current standing. Actually I predicted Kasparov to win before the tournament...Anand second...Leko...third. > > Kramnik faired poorly in the Corus tour. in >>Wijk aan Zee, he was only in 7th place! Kramnik rarely does well in these >>events. > >Every one has bad tournaments. Even Kasparov. Yes...But Kasparov record in Super Tournaments is unsurpassed! Kramnik is no rival. > >I DO NOT recognize him as the Classical WCC. He will NEVER give Kasparov >>a return match. He'll LOSE, and he KNOWS it. > >Why would he lose? Any evidence in favour of this argument? I can see only one, >but that is showing in the opposite direction: their match was won by Kramnyik. There is evidence for this, and Kramnik has dodged Kasparov for more than 4 years..end of story! > >Practically you are saying that the best method to determine the world champion >is by round robin tournaments. And this has not been the practice so far. > >Gábor With the FIDE in it's current state why the hell not?!
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