Re: "Kasparov Retains Title on a Draw":

TWO WRONGS MAKE TWO WRONGS

 <Both Botvinnik and Karpov enjoyed even greater advantages than
Kasparov.>
Larry Parr, stating a simple fact.

>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.>
Greg Kennedy, failing to place the blame where the blame belongs --
with FIDE, which set up this flawed system from the start in order to
protect Soviet supremacy.

And so it goes.



help bot wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   -- help bot