Originally posted by irontigranI agree, the FIDE does suck, and it's not going to be an easy fix. Forging a logical, fair, workable organization while working with the
FIDE really sucks right now, but i think theyre going to turn it around. theyve gone away from their roots in recent years.. at least it wasnt a tournament
huge ego's of the top 20 players, and the power hungry organizers within the FIDE now, is going to be like trying to mix oil and water.
All I can say is GOOD LUCK!!
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Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsit's not what he said though. the interviewer brought it up, and anand said he'd definitely want to play kasparov in case he came out of retirement. refusing to play kasparov would've been far more pequliar. anand doesn't really seem like the type of guy who might say something like that.
A player in his prime challenges a retired player. LOL
Nice.
That's like Klitschko saying bring on Ali. 🙂
Originally posted by stockton1984I just noticed that Bill Goichberg, the president of the USCF, posted an open letter to the FIDE office and to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today, asking about the status of the match. All we know is that the match supposedly will start on Nov 28, with a prize fund of $750,000.
If I'm not mistaken, Topalov and Kamsky are going to play a series of matcher for the "#1 contendership" so to speak, to see who gets to play Anand. Am I right?
However, the players are unaware of any further details. No contracts have been offered to them, there is no publicity that anyone has noticed, and inquiries from both USCF and the Bulgarians have gone unanswered.
So, in other words, par for the course for FIDE. 😕
Originally posted by Mad RookI thought the FIDE president's guarantee was good enough? http://small-url.com/?7U
I just noticed that Bill Goichberg, the president of the USCF, posted an open letter to the FIDE office and to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today, asking about the status of the match. All we know is that the match supposedly will start on Nov 28, with a prize fund of $750,000.
However, the players are unaware of any further details. No contracts have been offered ...[text shortened]... and the Bulgarians have gone unanswered.
So, in other words, par for the course for FIDE. 😕
I initially thought that 24 games is about right. But just for curosity (and I know its not truly representative) taking the 1st 12 games of the last couple of WCC you would have got:
1984 - Karpov +4 =8 -0 vs Kasparov
1985 - Karpov +2 =8 -2 and retains.
1986 - Kasparov +2 =9 -1 and wins the title
1987 - Kasparov +3 =7 -2 and retains.
1990 - Kasparov +1 =10 -1 and retains
1993 - Kasparov +5 =7 -0 vs Short
I also looked at 1963, 1966, 1969 (Petrosian retains), 1972, 1978, 1981, 1995.
On only three occasions (1969, 1984, 1985) out of the last 13 WCC did it make ANY difference to the overall result.
So I suppose you are only really losing out in watching 2 chess giants slug it out for an extra 12 games, because lets be honest some of the chess this year was fantastic. I for one would have loved another 12 games of it.