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Who is the legitimate World Chess Champion?

Markreich
14-10-2006, 22:05
The chess world has an undisputed world champion for the first time since 1993, after Russia's Vladimir Kramnik won a reunification match in a tie-break.
His match with Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov was tied 6-6 at the end of the scheduled series.

In a tiebreaker series of four rapid-play games, Kramnik won the final one to beat his rival 8.5-7.5 overall.

The match reunified two rival chess organisations which split apart 13 years ago.

The dispute dated from the occasion when Garry Kasparov withdrew from the World Chess Federation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6049276.stm

Now, some folks say that either Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov is still the true champion, as they have left the organization and have refused to defend their titles for varied reasons.

WDYT?
Babelistan
14-10-2006, 22:09
Bobby fischer will always rule
Drunk commies deleted
14-10-2006, 22:10
Hasn't anybody built a computer that can beat all human players yet? That way we can completely remove people from the competitions and just plug two boxes into each other, go away for a while, and come back to see which one is the winner.
Soviestan
14-10-2006, 22:11
Bobby Fischer ftw!
Markreich
14-10-2006, 22:16
Hasn't anybody built a computer that can beat all human players yet? That way we can completely remove people from the competitions and just plug two boxes into each other, go away for a while, and come back to see which one is the winner.

Nope. While Deep Blue and a few other very, very specialized computers have beaten Masters and Grand Masters, none has done so consistantly.
Ifreann
14-10-2006, 22:24
I don't know who any of these people are :(
Markreich
14-10-2006, 22:49
I don't know who any of these people are :(

Wow. I think a 20 minute repost lag is a Jolt first!! :D
Ifreann
14-10-2006, 23:05
Wow. I think a 20 minute repost lag is a Jolt first!! :D

Hooray, I'll be know for the longest repost lag ever!
I V Stalin
15-10-2006, 02:33
If they played each other now (or even giving them allr, say, 1 year to prepare), I reckon both Kramnik and Kasparov would beat Fischer. Kramnik vs. Kasparov would be great, but I think that Kasparov would edge it.

To claim that either Fischer or Kasparov is the true world champion is like claiming that Venezuela are the true world football champions because of this. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_World_Football_Champions)