Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:54:12 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 18:26:06, KarinsDad wrote:
>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 :)
Heck, even Karpov is having trouble convincing himself this is a world
championship. Wasn't he quoted as having proposed the event be instead called
the Chess World Cup?
I think someone is just trying to physically enact a cartoon published in New In
Chess magazine a number of years ago (one of the funniest chess cartoons I ever
saw) where you see Kasparov and Karpov, both decrepit old men, poring over a
board in their fiftieth match in.... Las Vegas (!) with dancing girls and
flashing lights in the background. :-)
Albert Silver
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