Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 04:50:30 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. Wasn't the match drawn ? Does Kramnik get draw odds to win the match ? Tom
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