Word: ponomariov
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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...
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