Not sure why people think FIDE should just replace Pono with a
randomly-selected player - where's the legitamacy in that? At least
Ivanchuk was the runner-up in the last FIDE WC cycle, so there would be
some point in selecting him if you were going to pick someone.
Fischer? Not going to happen - he wants nothing to do with the "old
chess" anymore, never mind FIDE, or Kasparov (who, according to Fischer,
owes him millions of dollars - of course he's wrong). Anand? I
understand the sentiment, and he has the 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 have the NBA winner play the WNBA winner to
determine the overal NBA championship?

John

Alberich wrote:

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Since Ponomariov is acting like a 13 year old brat and is too scared
to play Kasparov, I think FIDE should replace him with either Vishy
Anand or Bobby Fischer.

Either of these players would make an interesting match against
Kasparov.

A better idea would be to have Kasparov play Judit Polgar for the FIDE
title. Can you imagine the media frenzy from that one? The best male
player vs the best female player in the world. What could possibly beat
that promo for a chess championship match?