Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 03:04:10 07/02/05
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On July 02, 2005 at 03:36:13, Christos Gitsis wrote: >On July 02, 2005 at 00:58:06, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On July 01, 2005 at 22:52:53, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>On July 01, 2005 at 21:06:30, Christos Gitsis wrote: >>> >>>>Adams has dropped to number 13 of the FIDE rating list (July 1). >>>>He lost 18 points from 25 games. >>>>He is clearly not in good form right now. >>>> >>>>Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Day >>>> 1 Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2812 0 1963-04-13 >>>> 2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 18 1969-12-11 >>>> 3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2788 10 1975-03-15 >>>> 4 Leko, Peter g HUN 2763 0 1979-09-08 >>>> 5 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2752 25 1969-03-18 >>>> 6 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2744 12 1975-06-25 >>>> 7 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2738 26 1976-06-17 >>>> 8 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2735 10 1976-07-23 >>>> 9 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2729 13 1983-01-22 >>>> 10 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2724 30 1982-10-06 >>>> 11 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2724 12 1968-06-24 >>>> 12 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2720 17 1983-10-31 >>>> 13 Adams, Michael g ENG 2719 25 1971-11-17 >>>> 14 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2707 11 1977-07-18 >>>> 15 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2705 29 1972-07-04 >>>> 16 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2705 9 1971-12-07 >>>> 17 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2704 10 1983-10-11 >>>> 18 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2700 30 1971-12-14 >>>> 19 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2700 0 1974-06-02 >>>> 20 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2698 20 1969-01-30 >>> >>>I find it amazing that the current World Champ is in 6th. Kramnik's place has >>>been suffering as well. He has dropped 9 points since the last list. >>> >>>I think it is time for someone to step up and challenge him for the title. >>> >>>Peter >> >>I find it amazing that people consider kramnik as the world champion. >> >>I think that he has no right to call himself the world champion. >>In the last years he only won a single match against Kasparov and he did not >>deserve to play the match in the first place. >> >>Alexei Shirov is only 15 in the list but I think that it is even better to >>consider him as the world champion and not to consider kramnik as the world >>champion. >> >>Shirov beated kramnik in a match before kramnik played against kasparov and >>everybody who care about justice should be against the fact that shirov got >>nothing for it. >> >>Uri > >Hello Uri, > >I agree that this was not fair to Shirov. > >As I read yesterday, he won the match, but received no monetary reward, because >his payment was to be the world championship match. Kramnik, on the other hand, >received a monetary prize as loser of the match, and then also got the title >match with Kasparov. > >I, also, am annoyed by Kramnik's attitude since he became World Champion, and I >admire Shirov's playing style. However, I can't consider Shirov to be World >Champion, because he never won a World Championship match. Besides Kramnik did >win a match against Leko eight months ago. I suppose this means that he will be >calling himself World Champion for the next three-four years. If you only take FIDE rating points into consideration, nobody deserve to be called World Champion more than Anand, since he has been on top for the logest after Kasparov left Chess. Jorge
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