On May 1, 8:52 am, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <As far as I can tell, Karpov is the only World Champion in the FIDE
> era to play a title defense with *no* advantage (twice with Korchnoi,
> once vs. Kasparov)> -- David Kane
>
> Fischer once accused Soviets of throwing key games to each other in
> international tourneys.
One of these "Soviets" was named Victor Kortchnoi.
GM Kortchnoi later debunked some accusations, and
others debunked the asinine theory that it was a vast
conspiracy to "stop BF" from winning.
However, there was collusion between three of the
/top contenders/; they did not "throw" their games,
but agreed to uncontested draws.
> GM Yasser Seirawan, when asked if he ever saw any evidence of this in
> his own experience, said: "His charge is absolutely true! I've seen it
> happen. Soviet stars were expected to finish behind Karpov and I saw
> Polugaevsky throw away an easy draw against him in this simple
> endgame.
I went to chessgames.com and replayed this game.
It seemed to me that GM Polugaevsky gave GM
Karpov a very difficult time-- forcing him onto defense
for much of the game. However, at the very, very
finish, it is not clear how or why the "1-0" score was
achieved, since the position is drawn. Was there a
flag fall? Did some idiot *resign*, where even the
GetClub program might have held the draw?
> When Spassky committed the crime of fini****ng first ahead of
> Karpov in Spain, they cut off his interzonal funding -- which is
> why Spassky left Russia and went to play for France in the
> Olympiads."
Mr. Spassky was a real annoyance. I recall that
at one time he, and he alone, had a nice plus
score against fave Bobby Fischer-- even with the
King's Gambit! In retaliation, BF wrote an article
"refuting" the whole shebang.
-- help bot
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