Andy Walker wrote:
If the WC match is between Soviet GMs and held in the USSR, it's
hard to argue that any other country should have had much of a say
in the match conditions.

I disagree. If we're to call these people `world champions' rather
than `Soviet champions', the world needs to have had a say in how the
champion is decided. Which it did, through FIDE.


Dave.

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