1. He does not have any independent organization to conduct anything to select a challenger for whatever title he has. PCA is nothing and besides Kramnik is a board member there. This would be like Ilyuzhimov playing matches for FIDE title.

2. Kramnik has never earned his title in organized competition. He lost all the qualifying matches. He lost to Gelfand in one cycle, to Kamsky in one more, and to Shirov again. He had no moral rights to play for WC title of any type. It was given to him by Raymond Keene and Kasparov because Kramnik was a kissa$$ friend to them and Kasparov (and Keene) wanted money and so they organized that London match circumventing Shirov that would have been a legitimate challenger.

3. Since that match the circle around PCA organized half-baked Dortmund 2002 competition for a challenger without 3 of the best players out of top five missing (Kasparov, Anand, and Ivanchuk) and gave a priviledge to Kramnik of playing 14-games match he barely saved in the last game.

4. He does plays lousy currently and is rated way too low for a WC that he claims to be. This is just a part of it.

However I cannot ignore the fact that money has been brought into the club and has saved the club because of his influence. Because of him I am able to go and see my football side play. It gives me such pride in doing so. I still dont completely trust him and I doubt that will ever happen due to our introduction but I must respect the fact that he found the necessary money to fund the club. The club is now booming, bringing in a crowd of 1,279 for our first game of the season. Incredible start to the season, so inspiring.

Trying to sort out who I root for is not easy.

Generelly speaking I’m a traditionalist and would like to see unification and future MATCHES, not TOURNAMENTS to achieve the title.

Thus I would prefer a San Luis winner who might bring unification, but who that may be is ofcourse not easy to say. And some other factors also play a role for me, for example if the San Luis winner could be found more legitimate than Kramnik anyhow.

So for now this is my hopes for the outcome in San Luis:

1. Leko
Has the same manager as Kramnik so a new match seems very logical if Leko wins San Luis. Leko would also himself need (and win) a re-match to be 100% undisputable. And I’m sure that he will win against Kramnik next time. My money and heart goes to Peter if a re-match can be arranged (as it did in Brissago, by the way).

2. Anand
Had his chance to beat Kasparov and lost. Kramnik didn’t. I doubt that he could refuse a match against Kramnik if a chance occured. And I doubt Kramnik could refuse a match as well. I would love to see Anand win such a match, since it would be could for chess to have a non-western, non-russian champ.

3. Polgar
…and how great wouldn’t it be to have a non-male champ!

4. Kazim
… or a champ from the islamic world (hopefully creating some problems for the minirity of fanatic religious leaders who condemn chess as sinful). A win by Kazim is however in my opinion the one most likely NOT to bring unification. He is already world champion. He has tried to get a match with Kramnik and FIDE messed it up. If he wins now, one might be fair and say that we can’t expect him to become world champion over and over and over again to be recognized as legitimate.

5. Topalov
Lost against Kazim in Tripoli. Is somewhat uneven although exciting. But no, I would see him as ”worthy” of the ”classical title” until he beats Kramnik in a match and I doubt that such a match will occur.

6. Morozevich
Sorry, I like his play, but I wan’t to see others more.

7. Svidler
Assisted Kramnik in Brissago, didn’t he? Who’s more worthy – the assistant or the champ?

WRONG Kaspy, in late thirties, and having up and down periods, was beginning to decline, as all great players do. this was obvious in his mixed tournament results over the past few years, still very good, but a drop off by his own high standards. Kramnik was lucky to get a match against the world's most durable champion, when he was off-peak.