SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
” It’s very fashionable to criticise the qualifying system – but if you go back to the origins of competitions, the Olympics in Ancient Greece, and so on –they started off in order to identify the strongest person. But now people pick out the strongest at the beginning, for example Aronian, and then if, god forbid, he doesn’t win, the system’s considered bad.”
GM A. GRISCHUK
(yesterday, commenting on his surprise victories over Aronian and Kramnik)
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…or, in other words…as my dog Igor would say:
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Spraggett on Chess 