| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-10-25, 11:31 pm |
| FIDE DROPS MATCHES
As I wrote more than three years ago, the issue
here is turning the champion into a political cipher.
FIDE "learned its lesson" with Kasparov and, earlier,
with Fischer. The idea is to downgrade the world
title, no matter how deleterious the effect on chess
promotion will be.
The drama of the classical match is the only
method -- and drama is a method -- that chess has
found to reach the world via the mass media. There is
no substitute for such a match. FIDE understands the
point, which is precisely why it does not want a
champion bigger than the organization that would
control the title.
What will the USCF Executive Board do about this
threat to chess promotion in the United States and elsewhere?
Nuthin', is my answer.
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