On 2006-05-23, Jerzy wrote:
Uzytkownik "EZoto" napisal w wiadomosci
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Is this guy on fire or what! Now it says on chessbase that the match
between Kramnik and Topalov may be off, or tentative whatever that
means. Sounds like Kramnik is getting nervous. However for Topalov to
even consider an alternative match other than with Kramnik ( though
Anand would be an excellent substitute ) and pick Radjabov would be the
old days of chess in the 20's and 30's. Who has the most money.


No matter whom Topa will play, Radja or Kramnik, it will be an interesting
match. Notice that thanks to the new FIDE rule the current situation
returned to the pre-FIDE times when everybody could challenge champion only
if one could manage to assure enough high prize fund. However why should
nowadays both players give 20% of the prize fund to FIDE ? It makes FIDE an
unnecessary organization :-)



It's like paying protection money to the mob. "Give us 20% of the take, or
we'll declare your title invalid, like we did Kasparov's after the Short
match, and we'll make our own champion." The players pay up or FIDE keeps
the Champion's title divided and essentially worthless.

Even when Kasparov was active, FIDE's accumulated clout was impossible to
overcome. How could, say, Kramnik the Invisible Man, now scarcely in the
world's top ten, avoid this?

I would like to see an Anand-Topalov match, if only in the hope that
Anand's likely collapse as a long match goes into the latter stages would
finally quiet the apologists who claim that Anand should be the World
Champion, were it not for the Prague agreement, or the WC tournament
structure, or the what-have-you-this-week depriving him of his place in
the sun.