Author: James Robertson
Date: 02:58:50 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 01:22:52, KarinsDad wrote: >On August 18, 1999 at 23:52:54, James Robertson wrote: > >>On August 18, 1999 at 20:15:43, Mark Ryan wrote: >> >>>... will be rated 2646 or less. Under the current FIDE World Championship >>>tournament format, maybe a chess program would have a genuine shot ! >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Mark >> >>My personal opinion, but this KO thing SUCKS. It will be very amusing to have >>FIDE forced to declare a player not even in the top 40 the best in the world. I >>think it serves them right! :) >> >>James > >What's your point? They played the games. The winners won, the losers lost. > >A true champion would have risen to the top, regardless of competition. > >You are too hung up on the "big names" and slightly higher ratings and forget >that these guys are ALL championship caliber players. > >Who cares who wins? > >Whomever does had to go through 6 or 7 Rounds of tough competition. > >KarinsDad :) My point is: I think 2 games followed by blitz games is too random to decide who would have gone to the top. Look at Shirov; I believe that if he had played 4 or 6 games with Nisipeanu he could have recovered from his 2nd round loss. Also, playing straight for almost 30 days is tremendously difficult. We have watched a big decline in playing strength.... There is a good chance Nisipeanu will win this thing, and be declared best in the world. I think a strong case can be made that he is not even the best player in the field, so there must be something wrong with the way this WC thing is set up. :) One last thing; I am curious, what do you mean by "true champion"? :) James
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