New World Champion

Originally posted by Mephisto2
It took you a while this time to fall back to your true nature. Will you apologise or do I ask for a 3.c?

If you would look at his posts in other threads then you will see that he is ill-mannered with all people who disagree with his opinion.

The person who places second in the tournament is BETTER than the person who placed first IF he beats him in a match - FACT!

Surely the "fact" is that one player won the tournament and the other the match.

Originally posted by jvanhine
i agree, its so simple!

winner=champ.

5 minute chess tournament. Winner = champ.

Simplicity rules!!

Originally posted by no1marauder
Holding your breath till you turn blue, eh? Typical childish behavior.

Find someone with any knowledge of chess history who thinks that Leko and/or Grischuk are among the top ten players of all time (besides Leko and/or Grischuk's mother). Find someone with any knowledge of chess history who thinks Capablanca and/or Alekhine AREN'T.

In 1970 Bobby Fischer listed the 10 best players of all time as follows:

1.Botvinnik
2.Capablanca
3.Gligoric
4.Larsen
5.Morphy
6.Petrosian
7.Reshevsky
8.Spassky
9.Steinitz
10.Tal

As you can see,no Alekhine.Fischer may be mad but I'm pretty sure he has some knowledge of chess history.

Originally posted by ouwe belg
In 1970 Bobby Fischer listed the 10 best players of all time as follows:

1.Botvinnik
2.Capablanca
3.Gligoric
4.Larsen
5.Morphy
6.Petrosian
7.Reshevsky
8.Spassky
9.Steinitz
10.Tal

As you can see,no Alekhine.Fischer may be mad but I'm pretty sure he has some knowledge of chess history.

1970 is of course a long time ago, but still, I'm thrilled to see danish GM Bent Larsen in 4th place on this list.
It's not at all surprising, though. Bent Larsen was undoubtedly one of the world top 3 GM's in the late 60's/ early 70's.

He never did well in match play, but he was definitely one of the very best tournament players of all time!

Originally posted by ouwe belg
In 1970 Bobby Fischer listed the 10 best players of all time as follows:

1.Botvinnik
2.Capablanca
3.Gligoric
4.Larsen
5.Morphy
6.Petrosian
7.Reshevsky
8.Spassky
9.Steinitz
10.Tal

As you can see,no Alekhine.Fischer may be mad but I'm pretty sure he has some knowledge of chess history.

Fisher is not in the list either (and I didn't think he was a shy person) 😉

I'm the World Champion.

Originally posted by no1marauder
I really don't care what Kramnik agreed to (under threat of having his FIDE title, not the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP stripped). FIDE can't dictate who is World Champion; that is decided by match play.

EDIT: Riddle me this; who was the World Champion during the 1990's?

there were two. PCA world champ Kasparov and fide world champ Karpov.

Originally posted by z00t
Anand won just as Kasparov had predicted before the start of the event. I have been critical of Anand in the past but his play of late is at a high level. FIDE's rules mean he has to face off Kramnik in a match next year.

I used to be very critical of Anand because from the Soviet School perspective you cannot have champs playing only 1. e4. He changed that in his match with Kramnik by playing 1. d4 Kudos to Anand for becoming a true chess player.