Author: KarinsDad
Date: 15:26:06 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 18:07:21, Charles Unruh wrote: > > >I wish this guy would at least retire from chess, if he is going to refuse to >play. I give it to him that he won the last Fide world championships. Now >however he has no claim to such a title. If he isn't going to play in the >current champs he should at least retire! He knows there's no way that he can >hold a match with any of the top 5 players except maybe Morozevich(lack of >experience). He should just do it for the good of chess and stop embarassing >himself. Heck even if he pulled a Kasparov and just said "Ok me and >Shirov/whoever will play a match for the title" would be fine but he needs to >finish it up. He's had a great run but the race is over! This is a narrow view. If you had won the championship and you signed an agreement with FIDE that you would hold the title for 2 years and then they suddenly said, "Nope, we are holding a new championship the following year, no matter what we signed.", what would you do? It's hard to criticize people for being in the right. Karpov is the reigning FIDE champion, but they want to get him out for someone younger, no matter what they have to do to accomplish it. Just like you want him out. FIDE pulled the same type of stuff with Kasparov and is pulling the same type of stuff with Polgar. Susan is the reigning woman's FIDE champion, but she is getting similar treatment. It's not hard to read between the lines when both of the FIDE champions are having problems with FIDE. And whose bright idea was it to have the championship in Las Vegas for 2 years running? Is this the only city in the world willing to deal with FIDE? Seems kind of appropriate if you think about it. And finally, every FIDE World Chess Championship in the last 50 years (to my recollection) has had the champion playing the winner of a candidate's tournament. This year, Karpov gets placed in with the rest of the players. Seems a strange time to change the rules. Could it be that they did not get the result that they wanted last year? KarinsDad :)
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