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From: tstorm@vu44.UUCP (Theo van der Storm)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Re: World Chess Championship aborted
Message-ID: <607@vu44.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 08:46:26 EST
Article-I.D.: vu44.607
Posted: Sun Feb 24 08:46:26 1985
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Summary: 

In article <238@philabs.UUCP> dpb@philabs.UUCP (Paul Benjamin) writes:
>Big deal. This is just a match for the title of second-best
>chess player in the world, anyway.

No, it is not. I assume you are refering to Bobby Fischer.
Let me explain:

Bobby Fischer knows he would not be able to come back to the top.
He played some friendly games against some grand-masters.
I do NOT doubt he still has the strength of an international
grand-master, but not more than that.
In order to conceal this, he asks ridiculous amounts of money
to play and to be interviewed.

Another simple argument is, that only the World Champion of
the FIDE has the rigth to call himself the best chess player in
the world!

PS: vu44 receives net.games, but NOT net.chess
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Theo van der Storm, 52 20'N / 4 52'E, {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!tstorm