Re: The Match That Wasn't

On May 4, 4:34 am, jkh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> You can argue this one either way. In June of 1974, when FIDE wouldn't
> agree to his match conditions, Fischer wrote the letter resigning his
> "FIDE title." In September of 1974, Karpov won the final Candidates
> Match. In that sense, Kennedy's quibble is correct. However, in May-
> June 1975, FIDE held another meeting and agreed to _almost_ all of
> Fischer's conditions. They then sent Fischer a request to play, more
> or less ignoring the "resignation" letter. When Fischer refused to
> rely, Karpov was declared the winner by forfeit. Looked at that way,
> Evans's account is fairly accurate -- by declining to play, Fischer
> "gave" the title to his (known) opponent.


  In 1975, Bobby Fischer was not in possession of
the FIDE title, so he was in no position to do any
such thing.  The FIDE title, you see, is controlled
by *FIDE* (go figure), and it is *they* who do the
giving (or not).   There is a thing called a "world
champion****p cycle", and so you see, the old
days wherein a single person gives "his" title or
refuses to defend it, are over and done with.

  The real reason the Larry Evans account tries to
involve Anatoly Karpov is self-evident; Mr. Evans
has for decades been ba****ng AK as a supposed
villain; he seems to know only the mystery-
suspense-thriller genre, and no other.  (IMO, this
was more of a Dr. Strangelove style tragi-comedy.)


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