Re: "Kasparov Retains Title on a Draw":

On Apr 23, 3:23 am, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> Both Botvinnik and Karpov enjoyed even greater
> advantages than Kasparov.


  The old two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy again.

  This kind of muddled thinking leads to all sorts of
delusions and fantasies, since Reason is simply
tossed out the window.

  According to one fantasy, GM Botvinnik was the
"favorite" of evil villains who did everything in their
power to keep his challengers from getting the
title.  Unfortunately, just about everybody did in
fact get the title, for GM Botvinnik lost the world
champion****p title more times than any other
person in the history of the game!

  The fantasy also held that one day, an insider
would reveal that in his expert opinion, MB was
the Kremlin's favorite, and this mere opinion was
touted by storyteller Larry Evans as the smoking
gun which would show his wild speculations to
have been correct.  Unfortunately, the story ends
with that "insider" telling the world that, in his
expert opinion, it was GM Smyslov who was the
favorite of the powerful Kremlin puppet-masters... .

  Oh well, it made for a good story.


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