isolanis.com » International Harvester http://isolanis.com Net home of the Isolanis Chess Club Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Topalov – Kramnik Match: World Chess Championship 2006. http://isolanis.com/2006/10/topalov-kramnik-match-world-chess-championship-2006/ http://isolanis.com/2006/10/topalov-kramnik-match-world-chess-championship-2006/#comments Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:25:59 +0000 International Harvester http://isolanis.com/2006/10/topalov-kramnik-match-world-chess-championship-2006/ Topalov-Kramnik Match: World Chess Championship 2006.

Vladimir Kramnik is now “officially” recognized as The World Chess Champion, some seven years after defeating then World Champ Gary Kasparov in a monumental match. That FIDE has plodded along, producing its own string of “world champions” has been to turn a blind eye to its own mismanagement and failures. You’ve probably heard of Viswanathan Anand, but do you know Alexander Khalifman, Roslan Ponomariov, or Rustam Kasimdzhanov? Well, they all are–in FIDE history, at least–World Champions, listed as successors to the line starting with Steinitz and ending with Kasparov. What a load of horseshit! None of them ever faced Kasparov in a match, save for Anand (and he got his ass creamed). The game five forfeit in the Topalov-Kramnik match was such a farcical piece of mismanagement that even Karpov and Korchnoi–who have never agreed on anything–both stated they would have walked under similar conditions! Kramnik is the only player in the world to have beaten Kasparov in match play, he successfully defended his title several years ago, and has placed at or near the top in every super-IGM tournament he has played in since gaining the crown. Let history toss FIDE’s “champions” out with the bath water: Kramnik has been World Champion since 2000.

]]> http://isolanis.com/2006/10/topalov-kramnik-match-world-chess-championship-2006/feed/ 2 World Champ Chess http://isolanis.com/2006/10/world-champ-chess/ http://isolanis.com/2006/10/world-champ-chess/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:32:27 +0000 International Harvester http://isolanis.com/2006/10/world-champ-chess/ I see today’s (rnd.7–ed.) latest World Champ Chess game was another draw. Topalov cannot make any headway against Kramnik unless the latter decides not to show up. There have been many strange occurances in World Championships past–remember the Karpov/Korchnoi encounters, the first Karpov/Kasparov match, or even Fischer/Spassky?–but the “Toiletgate” stunt pulled by Team Topalov was one of the most disgustingly transparent attempts to derail a WCC match ever! These guys should be ashamed of themselves. And for Topalov to get a point off a forfeit is an abomination! I hope Kramnik creams this idiot and sends the “FIDE World Champ” back to the footnotes of chess history where he belongs.

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