Author: KarinsDad
Date: 06:18:28 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 05:58:50, James Robertson wrote: >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 Fischer, Kasparov. Someone who would have played for a win in every game in such a short format and wiped his opponents as opposed to these players who say "Well, I have black first round. So, I will play for a draw and attempt to win in round two. And if that fails, I may still be able to get into tiebreaks.". Bogus. Anyone who draws after 16 moves is not a true champion. For example, Adams game 2 round 6 after already being down 0-1. Kasparov would have fought tooth and nail for a win in round 2 and never would have OFFERED a draw. KarinsDad :)
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