Can you comment on the proposed world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik?
They have no right to call it a world championship. Of course, nobody can prevent them from playing a private match, as Kasparov did against Timman in Prague in 1998. Obviously you are not on good terms with the world’s top 3. What’s your view of Kasparov’s behaviour? He sets the rules and then breaks them. But in this particular case it looks as if he had already planned a match against Kramnik in 1997-1998. However, when I beat Kramnik, which Kasparov certainly had not expected, all their plans were wiped out. Kramnik later admitted in an interview with the Russian magazine «Chess Review 64»: «I will play against Kasparov some day anyway». It look as if this day is fast approaching. How would you assess Anand’s role? He acted according to a rather cynical approach which from another angle may be called a practical principle: money talks. So far he has received 200,000 dollars without doing anything. I don’t know what could possibly justify this sum. And what is Kramnik’s part in the
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Can you comment on the proposed world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik?