Since Gabor brought up Mexico City 2007, here is an open thread about the next World Championship and beyond. Ask and you shall receive 🙂
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Can Judit still become World Champion?
That would be so cool!
I wish she did! 🙂
How many players START in Mexico?
Is there any elimination rounds, or the final (and only) 8 players play a double round robin?
If there are elimination rounds before the players arrive to Mexico, how many players have the theoretical opportunity to make it to Mexico (play at all for the chance to be in Mexico)?
Gabor
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Susan is a real tyrant. Don’t vote her into any position of power. She simply cannot handle differing opinions, and has a megalomaniac need to control people.
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Because she disagrees with you about Mexico City. Whatever…
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She says it’s a World Championship (she deliberately underlines this always).
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Because that’s what it is, and it’s confusing for people like you to call it a candidates tournament, when that’s nothing more than wishful thinking. It should be a Candidates Tournament. But it isn’t. Instead it’s another meaningless FIDE World Tournament Championship Tournament. (Yawn.)
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We don’t know yet what is Kramnik’s take on it,
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You are in error. We DO know Kramnik’s take on it. His take, until he says differently, is what he signed on the contract.
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and when you suggest it’s a qualification tournament instead she deletes it.
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If your post has been deleted, then what am I replying to?
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How mad is that? Being voted into a power at USCF the Polgar modus operandi would be to unquestionably love and adore all her own opinions and not listen to contrary views.
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You don’t seem to know the difference between fact and opinion. Maybe if you stated your opinion in the form of an opinion rather than as an erroneous fact, it wouldn’t get deleted.
Does Judit have any more events before her qualifier with Bareev? I posted this also in the blindfold section so sorry for the double posting.
There is a FIDE proposal for change in the format – Mexico will be the last KO tournament for the title of a world champion (info from daily dirt, chessbase).
Afterwards, there will be a 2 year cycle finishing with a 12-16 games match between the challenger (the winner of the world cup) and the reigning champ.
The proposed system is not perfect but is much better than the current one. And yeah, Kramnik should participate in Mexico and if he eventually loses, there will be another world champion. This is a particular event as the unification match was, not very well thought through but as Kramnik, Topalov and FIDE already started the process it should go all the way until the establishement of the new cycle.