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| From | Message | Posted by honololou
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2/23/2003
12:12:18
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are there currently two world champions? When did this
split occur resulting in separate FIDE and Classical Chess
titles?
Which one (if either) is generally regarded more highly?
| Posted by caldazar
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2/23/2003
17:38:04
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Kasparov, unhappy with the way FIDE was handling affairs, broke away from FIDE back in 1993 and tried to start his own chess federation. From then on, there were two "world champion" titles, one held by Kasparov (until he lost it to Kramnik) and the one handed out by FIDE. Hence the need for this year's world championship reunification cycle.
Opinions differ, but my personal feeling is that the title currently held by Kramnik holds more weight since he won it by not only defeating Kasparov, the world's #1 ranked player, but he did so under tournament match conditions. Contrast this with Ponomariov's title, which he won through an FIDE knockout tournament.
| Posted by tulkos
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2/23/2003
17:44:35
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Kramnick is world champion.
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A poisoned pawn that hasn’t lost its kick — Next time you’re dining in Gibraltar, think twice before ordering the pawns. Two sharp games showcasing the notorious Sicilian Poisoned Pawn Variation top the menu today, served up at the just-concluded Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, held on the British island at the entrance to the Mediterranean. Black found the antidote in the first game, but the poisoned offering — which famously proved indigestible even for Bobby Fischer in his Reykjavik chess match with Boris Spassky - proved highly toxic for French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave a round later. Young women’s world chess champion Hou Yifan gave one of the greatest performances ever by a female chess player in an open tournament in Gibraltar, losing in ...
| Posted by honololou
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2/23/2003
18:37:24
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I think its great that we will soon return to a situation
where there is only one universally recognized world chess
champion.
Right now, its too much like boxing.
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Carlsen is cool but not complacent — Top chess players certainly aren’t clones. Magnus Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess grandmaster, is intense at the chessboard but seems to instinctively sidestep the storm and stress that buffeted chess champions such as Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. When asked whether he or Levon Aronian, the world’s second-ranked grandmaster, was the better chess player, Carlsen said he didn’t know but pointed out — for what it was worth — that his rating was a few points better than Aronian’s. Carlsen doesn’t obsess about such things; he simply goes about playing chess. With strong support from a family that often accompanies him when he plays, an income of more than $1 million a year, and ...
| Posted by cheesemuffin
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2/25/2003
14:15:29
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has to be considered world champion. I don't know what Pomanirov's position in the world rankings is, but it's not even close to no. 1
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Hou Yifan Defeats Judit Polgar at Gibraltar Chess Festival — There was a changing of the guard at the top of the world chess rankings a few years ago, led by Magnus Carlsen, the current No. 1. But Judit Polgar’s spot at the top of the women’s list has been secure. The best woman chess player in history, Polgar, 35, has been No. 1 for 20 years, and no one had ever come close to challenging her. Until last week, when Hou Yifan, the 17-year-old women’s world chess champion, turned in a spectacular performance at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which ended on Thursday. Hou’s results will put her on the cusp of the top 100 among all chess players, and it seems only a matter of time before she joins Polgar, now No. 32, to become just the second woman in that ...
| Posted by caldazar
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2/25/2003
16:26:43
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Ruslan Ponomariov is currently ranked 7th worldwide with a FIDE ELO of 2734.
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Chess Champ Hou Yifan in the Limelight — Levon Aronian's brilliant victory at the prestigious Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, would normally be the topic of our conversation. But it was a young Chinese girl, Hou Yifan, 17, who stole the limelight. The women's world chess champion shared first place at the powerful Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar, one of the world's strongest open chess tournaments. Hou was in the lead going into the last round, but was caught at the last moment by Nigel Short. They both scored 8 points in 10 games and the English grandmaster grabbed the title in a blitz playoff. But Hou faced much tougher opponents. Facing six grandmasters rated above 2700 points - a barrier reserved for the best 40 chess players ...
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