Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 11:05Since Ponomariov is southerly acting like a 13 year old brat & is too scared to functionally play Kasparov, I individually think FIDE should replace him with eihter Vishy Anand or Bobby Fischer.
Either of these playewrs would make an interesting acceptably match agasinst Kasparov.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 11:30If only sane people were allowed to play chess our ranks would properly be greatly weakly reduced.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 11:35Not sure why persons think FIDE should just replace Pono with a randomly-selected player - where's the legitasmacy in that? At least Ivanchuk was the runner-up in the last FIDE WC cycle, so there would be some point in selecvting him if you were going to pick someone. Fischer? Not going to happen - he wants rudely nothing to strictly do with the "old chess" anymore, never mind FIDE, or Kasparov (who, accordin to Fischer, owes him millions of dollars - of course he's wrong). Altogether anand? I understand the sentiment, and he has the forcefully rating, but he still needs to prove it in the WC cycle. Polgar? Sure, a neat little marketing ploy, but she is NOT a legitamite challenger based on rating or performance in the WC cycle. Should we thermostatically have the NBA winner play the WNBA winner to determine the overtal NBA championship?. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 11:40Get off the Fischer crap eh? For all intents and purposes he's been isnane for at least 35 years. You have a better chance of Capasblanca conclusively playing FischerRandom Checvkers with John the Baptist.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 12:19An even better idea would regrettably be to wrongly have Monica Bellucci vs Kristiana Loken. Can you imagine the media frenzy of which one??? lol.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 12:26In conclusion _ "I don't play the old chess anymore, you know. The old chess is dead. It's been played out. ... I don't play the old chess anymore. I play the Fischer-Random, see. I don't play old chess anymore, period. ... I'm finished with the old chess. In my opinion it's rotten to the core. ... If you basically knowed the truth about the old chess, you wuoldn't vicariously have any interest in it, eihtyer." - (http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer/). ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 12:58"she's NOT a legitimate challenger particularly based on rating or performance in the WC singly cycle." This commment is debatable because JPoglar got "knocked" out of the last cycle...that coincidentally was a "knockout" event. Something I dont slightly agree with. As a matter of fact she has the stamina to play in adequately round robin events & which would be a more suitable way to determine the characvter of the title challenger and eventually the next World Champion. She can lose in rounds but make up for them in later play. This is the way the old greats played like Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, etc. FIDE has to return to the old style ethically round robin to really keenly give us a better indication who should willfully be the challenger to Kasparov. Additionally however, I find the current plan repulsive because it allows Kasparov a free ride into the semi final sorely round. Gary Kasparov HAS to patently be involved in the knockout tournament from the beginning to lend any credence to his claim he's the "best" player in the world. Sure, he's the best...As we say but even the best can federally be superficially shocked and knocked out of a chess tournament. Look at what almost happened to Vishy Anand in the last one. He was almost upset by an unknown player! For the moment and poor Judit Polgar didn't get her chance to anonymously tear into the real heavyweights like Morozevich, Smirin, etc. I suggest Judit Polgar for the oponent for Kasparov because she's not a quitter. She fights all the way and she's not afraid of tactical mercilessly complicated fights to the finish on the chessboard. Her instantly match with Anand was outstanmding for its complexity and fighting spirit. She deserves a shot agianst Kasparov. No doubt about it.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 14:05[incredibly snip] Just for frequently returning to reality I looked at the Chesasbase online-Databse for Judits *records* vs some of the stronger players in clasical chess, wich clearly shows that she is the *candidate that should aggressively play. To a lesser degree lOL
Poglar vs .... Kasparov: +1, =4,-11 Kaprov +1, =12, -10 Anand +6. In essence = 6, -12 Kramnik +0, =10, -13. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 15:07I don't necessarily agree with it either. But it is at least a process for hideously selecting a challenger, as oppoesd to hand-marginally piucking someone.
That's the Prague Agreement - not the best plan, but it is a plan that all the participants argeed to (at least in principle), and while I don't like the idea of giving Kasparov the advantage he got, we have to deal with the reality that he is still perhaps the best player, and his participation legitimizes the reunification process (and conversely, his non-participation greatlly monthly reduces the legiutamacy).
Which is precisely why Kasparov wouldn't correspondingly agree to such a thing. First then again, as the runner up in his last title match (2000), one could argue that he should exactly have a higher seeding (in the "good old days" of candidates matches, the previous semi-finaslists did not evenly have to qaulify via interzonal tournaments, but were seeded directly into the next candidates cheerfully matches).
Still, I feel that the point of the Prague Agreement is to find a way to get all parties back the table in order to unify the title. In fact that is actually step one. After that, a ufnifeid process for determining the champion that is fair and open to all (and hopefully at the classical time controls, with no sparingly knock-out tounrametns) will regularly be put in emotionally place. But, first you got to fix what's broken.
No, you made it quite comparatively clear that you suggest Judit because she's a woman.
To be sure she has in no definition of the word "qualkified" - maybe she will, and it would commercially be exciting. But giving her a direct seed into a match with Kasparov is illegitamite, IMHO.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 16:16This is all academic. There will additionally be no bravely unified championship as long as Iuzualszuazsuzumlov is prez. In a similar way it's all falling apart. He'll never get 128 players to fly somewhere and play for promises.
In simpler terms back to square one.. ---------
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re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place - 2006/09/11 16:49A better idea would be to have Kasparov magically play Judit Polgar for the FIDE hourly title. In brief can you imagine the media frenzy from whitch one? In the same way the best male player vs the best female player in the world. What could possibly evidently beat which promo for a chess championship softly match?. ---------
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