Re: The Match That Wasn't

On May 5, 8:15 am, "Chess One" <OneCh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> But the effect of other players on Karpov, who can be said to have an
> artistic temperament to chess, was that he said he could never really
get
> excited [artistically] at the prospect of playing Kasparov - but
Korchnoi
> provided him a huge stimulus - and he quantified that, by saying
something
> like 85% of his creative energies.
>
> He then continued on this theme, in Karpov on Karpov, to state that
Fischer
> would have been his greatest challenge, in the 90th percentiles.
>
> That is an artistic tribute and a sincere one to Fischer-the-player.

  It seems likely that this particular blather was a
response to the innumerable attacks "on Karpov",
but by others.  One of these others was of course,
Gary Kasparov, who continued to belittle his
adversary until he signed a contract forbidding it,
not very long ago.

  The ploy was to suggest that GK was unworthy,
or that AK had not necessarily tried his darnedest
to excel against him; a rather obvious cop-out or
lie.  To me, this is no different from the multitude
of lies and fabrications told by master story-teller
Gary Kasparov, many of which targeted Anatoly
Karpov, casting him as the main villain in twisted
plots which virtually always contained serious
flaws and self-contradictions, not to mention
casting errors (GK as the hero??!).


> Far better if Fischer-the-player had continued to believe in pawns
rather
> than suffer the fate of the [self] abandoned celebrity.

  Another possibility was for Bobby Fischer to
refuse to compete, but at the same time craft
numerous works on the game, which quite
naturally would have been best-sellers.  That
would have solved his financial woes, while at
the same time affording him an outlet in which
to critique the play of other grandmasters, and
bash the FIDE, the USCF, and most of all, the
Russians and the Jews who were all "out to get
him".  (Hey, if /I Was Beaten in a Pasadena
Jailhouse/ sold, then why not /The World Wide
Plot to Get Bobby Fischer/?)


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