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Though some SPS members characterized the poetry at the slam as “pretty lame,” it was a bona fide excuse to get their artistic juices flowing. The SPS officers, who hope to make the poetry slam an annual event, promise better food next time...
...Michael Jordan, and the game's only superstar isn't playing along. Garry Kasparov, ranked No. 1 in the world for the past 17 years, has called Ilyumzhinov's version of the game "the end of chess as we know it" and urged his fellow grandmasters to boycott FIDE events. "If the leading players do not organize themselves soon," Kasparov told TIME, "classical chess will all but disappear." (Ilyumzhinov, for his part, has called Kasparov "unbalanced...
Matters came to a head in Moscow last December, when FIDE and Kasparov staged simultaneous rival tournaments in the same city. Without either Kasparov or No. 2-ranked Vladimir Kramnik in attendance, FIDE ended up crowning an 18-year-old Ukrainian named Ruslan Ponomariov. Last week Kasparov gave the whiz kid the grandmaster of all spankings at a tournament in Spain...
...real world champion? No one knows. Few think Ponomariov has what it takes. But Kasparov doesn't have FIDE's stamp of approval, and, besides, he lost to Kramnik in a non-FIDE championship match two years ago (since then Kramnik has managed to avoid a title rematch). "There's this terrible rift in chess," says Seirawan, who is also boycotting FIDE events. "The world chess championship is a disputed title...
Meanwhile, the road show rolls on to Dubai, where FIDE's World Chess Grand Prix kicks off April 2. Of course, the top three active players won't be there; Kasparov, Kramnik and Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will be at an independent tournament in Kazakhstan. "You've almost got a situation like in boxing," says Seirawan with a sigh. "Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified...