Scooped on my own blog ... maybe.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1952
http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=575
The World Championship Match between FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan and the world's highest rated player, Garry Kasparov of Russia, shall be held January 7th-24th, 2005, in Dubai. The winner of this match will play the winner of the Leko-Kramnik match later in 2005 in a reunification match.
Let me make a prediction right now: Kasparov is going to blow through Kasimdzhanov without losing a single game. The match is scheduled for 12 games; it's not going to go the distance. The two players are just not in the same league; Kasparov's rating is 2813 while Kasimdzhanov is #47 with a rating of 2650. (For comparison, Kramnik and Leko are #3 and #6, respectively.)
[This is not as definite as you would be led to believe from reading the FIDE press release; see my blog entry dated 10/29/2004.]
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