More World Championship Fun
The ChessBase news page has posted a collection of readers' comments on the Kramnik-Topalov situation, and the comments run pretty heavily against Topalov. I guess most of the chess world is as sick as I am of split titles, and wants to see reunification, as long as it's achieved in a timely manner and is followed by a fair procedure for determining future champions.
Speaking of which...
A couple of days ago, I posted a link to the latest modification in the 2005-2007 cycle, and not everyone is happy about it. Click here to see protests from Kamsky and Shirov, and then here for FIDE's reply followed by Kamsky's rejoinder.
It's not likely that a solution exists that will please everyone, but hopefully there's one that will please enough of the players to get - and keep - the show going.
Speaking of which...
A couple of days ago, I posted a link to the latest modification in the 2005-2007 cycle, and not everyone is happy about it. Click here to see protests from Kamsky and Shirov, and then here for FIDE's reply followed by Kamsky's rejoinder.
It's not likely that a solution exists that will please everyone, but hopefully there's one that will please enough of the players to get - and keep - the show going.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Thursday October 27, 2005 at 10:02pm
Kramnik cleary is not interested in giving up his title based on the results of a single round robin. So he won't give it up to play in San Luis II.
If Topalov wins he may give it up and then the Title will have about as mcuh value as the Linares Champion. Thanks to FIDE the only options are split champions or no champions.