Author: I Hart SanQuentin
Date: 06:18:32 07/02/05
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On July 02, 2005 at 07:50:30, Thomas Logan wrote: >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 Yes he gets draw odds- Bogus, i can't stand Kramnik
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