Author: walter irvin
Date: 18:39:55 07/28/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 21:54:12, Albert Silver wrote: >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 the computer world championship was ran 1000 x better and made 1000 x more since than the (human rotating rules championship)
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