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...evened the score at three points apiece. There are two games left and $1-million is at stake - not to mention the restoration of human dignity. Vladimir Kramnik's fellow grand masters hope that he will win the competition and avenge the loss of the previous world champion, Garry Kasparov, to an IBM supercomputer five years ago. "If he wins, we'll have something to be proud of again," said Alexander Baburin, editor of the Internet chess daily www.chesstoday.net...
...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...
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...