Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:10:54 02/14/99
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On February 13, 1999 at 14:25:31, Matthew Herman wrote: >On February 12, 1999 at 13:31:33, Alain Lyrette wrote: > >>Hey gang!Want to know who's the real champion of the world?How about a 4 >>player's tournament?Kasparov,Anand,Karpov and...Deepest blue?Your prediction >>please..... > >Come on, do you really think this would determine who the "real" champion of the >world is? Karpov is over the hill, while still very strong, is no match for >kasparov or anand (fide world ko in '97 was complete farce and anand was >exhausted). Deepest blue is dismantled. Even if Karpov was still at moderate >strength and deepblue was in.. you are forgetting Kramnik and Shirov.. (who at >this point are probably better than Karpov). Also noone would really accept this >to find the world champion.. matches are the only "real" way of determining a >world champ.. > >Matt While historically matches have been preferred to determine who is the world champion, once there was a World Championship Tournament in 1948 in Moscow and The Hague. It was a five round round-robin among five players: Botwinnik, Euwe, Keres, Reshewsky and Smyslow (Fine was invited to play but declined). The validity of this tournament to determine the world champion has not been seriously questioned, as far as I know, and Botwinnik is recognized as a worthy champion.
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