Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:14:15 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 09:18:28, KarinsDad wrote: >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 :) Well, the player in the field who fits that description is Shirov and he LOST. James
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