Author: G. R. Morton
Date: 09:57:42 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 09:56:57, Graham Laight wrote: >...He also expressed the view that VK would be a better opponent for a computer >than GK, whom he dismissed as "too emotional" for this kind of game. > >He was quite emphatic that the DB team didn't cheat in '97 (a viewpoint I >wholeheartedly agree with), and he also said that it was the most exciting chess >event he'd ever been to - a real media circus, and GK becoming almost a sick man >(my paraphrase of his description) by the end of the week... I find this very interesting that GK was '"too emotional" for this kind of game.' and distraught almost to the point of illness during the DB match. I hope this was the case since the only plausible explanation I've heard as to why the worlds strongest chess player (ever) and foremost opening theorist could make such an amateur screw-up with the losing h6?? is that GK was deliberately throwing the match for bigger bucks (Russian Mafia?). I would hate to think this could be true of such a great figure, but how can such a seasoned chess giant screw-up like that in a no-time pressure opening in a common CK line on which he is expert? I'm not suggesting that he did throw the match but I would like to hear some good explanation? Any chess psychologists out there?
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