11/24/03
1 Why should Kasparov be seeded into the
process ?
Garry Kasparov is the current Ex World Champion. Other World Champions have had greater advantage, Botvinnik and Karpov had automatic
rematch clauses. The loser of
the last World Chess Championship was automatically seeded into the
candidate match process. Kasparov is the number one player in the world.
Unfortunately we don’t have time to do this process correctly.
Bottom line, Garry Kasparov deserves to be seeded in the candidate matches.
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2 Why
should Peter Leko agree to this ?
Peter Leko is in danger of being written out of the process all together. Just
like Shirov was in 1998. Peter
should endorse this proposal. If not, he should consider playing in the
Fide Knockout Tournaments to increase his chances of getting a match with
Kasparov or Kramnik.
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3 Why
should FIDE accept this ?
If
FIDE is concerned about bring a world championship to the masses, this
is the quickest way to do it. There are too many holes in the current
process. The Chess World Championship is in danger of being postponed
indefinitely. In, 1946 FIDE took control of organizing of
world title matches. For many years they did a great job. Fide has an
opportunity to reunify chess, if they miss this opportunity, they could
lose the right to represent chess.
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4 Why
should Kasparov accept this ?
Well
Garry will play anyone, he wants his title back. Garry does not fear any
carbon based units. Garry signed the contract to play Ponomoriov, and Garry
did not like the contract at all
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5 Why should Kramnik accept this ?
If
he wants his million dollar match up, this is the way to go. He needs to
defend his title, it’s been three years now. He owes it to the millions
of chess fans who want to see a world title match.
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6 Why should the millions of chess fans accept
this ?
We all deserve to see a championship match. This is the quickest way to
go. It is also a good method as well.\
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7 Why
should the World Champion only have to play one match, where as the
challengers have to play three ?
Well Spassky, Fischer , Karpov, Kasparov went thru this process to
become world champion. The title changes hands. The selection process to
find a candidate challenger is not supposed to be easy.
The World Champion only plays one match
because we want to preserve Chess’ rich tradition of the man who
beat the man who beat the man. The process is a three year process, so the
candidates get to recharge their minds, bodies and chess souls.
The World Champion gets to enjoy the title and promote the game of
chess. Chess fans can feel good about the
challenger and the champion knowing both have been tested by fire
and the winner is worthy of being placed
along side of Steinitz,
Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal , Petrosian,
Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik.
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8 It's not fair that the challenger has to use up his novelties in three
candidate matches ?
It’s a three year cycle, so the challengers will have time to recharge
and develop new strategies. The World Champion will not know who he is
facing, until the final candidate match. So both will have time to develop
opening strategies. As far as
opening novelties are concerned, if you know the theory behind the opening
and you see a novelty then you play chess and figure out what to do. This
is the what chess is all about. As a challenger you know who the World
Champion is and you can prepare for him ahead of time. NO question it is
going to be tough, it’s not supposed to be easy. As a candidate
challenger if you are the stronger player, then maybe you don’t need to
use your novelties, take your opponent down to the endgame, wear him or
her out. If you are the weaker player, hang tough.
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9 Why should Kasparov play Leko and not the
winner of a Fide knockout winner ?
Leko earned the right to play Kramnik for the world championship by
winning Dortmund in 2002. He also won
Linares in 2003. Garry
was to play Ponomoriov, the 2002 fide knockout winner, who refused to play.
Also the Fide knockout event is too random to be good for challenger
selection. So in order to see a World Championship in 2004, this is the
best and quickest way to go. It's a fair approach for all parties.
I urge all parties to accept some if not all
of these proposals for the good of chess.
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10. Who is the legitimate Chess World Champion ?
Vladimir Kramnik is the Legitimate Chess World Champion.
Here is why ?
The process determines the legitimate Chess World Champion. Today
we have 2 competing processes. The first is the FIDE blitz crazed "grab
bag" knockout tournament process. The second is the man who beat the man
who beat the man process. When you examine these two processes, you should
only draw one conclusion. The man who beat the man who beat the man is the
legitimate process. When you study the history of the great World Champions, you
see that the title has changed hands thru the man who beat the man who beat the
man, with two exception. In 1946 Alexander Alekhine died and in 1975
Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title. Vladimir Kramnik is the current
world champion. He is the man who beat Garry Kasparov who beat Anatoly
Karpov.
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11. How did the split in world championships occur ?
In 1993, during the bidding process for the Garry Kasparov
vs. Nigel Short World Championship, the players got upset that then FIDE
President Campomanes decided to ignore their input on sponsorship and venue for
the match. Nigel called Garry Kasparov and both decided to break away from
FIDE and form their own organization called the PCA. FIDE, deciding not to
mend the split, held its first FIDE SHAMpionship. FIDE held a match
between the two opponents that Nigel Short had defeated in the candidate
process. The bogus championship was between Anatoly Karpov, the 12th World
Champion, and Jan Timman, a very talented player and author. World
Champion Garry Kasparov went on to defeat Nigel Short, in a very exciting
match, by a score of 12.5 - 7.5. Anatoly Karpov defeated Jan Timman by a
score of (12.5- 8.5). The rift has yet to be mended.
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