Author: Larry S. Tamarkin
Date: 00:25:43 03/31/98
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On March 30, 1998 at 19:25:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Larry: >I could bet my year income that nothing of the sort will be possible. >Excpeto in particular, half serious and half funny ocassions, GMI are >not very prone to risk his enormous egoes in that kind of competitions >with such kind of sane and easy going rivals as are computers.Anybody >that knows GMI knows I am right: this is not people like you and me >-well, I suppose you and me are not GMI- with normal levels of egotism >and some humour to take our shortcomings; they are louzy people, >maniatic people, untractable people. They put all his life in a wood >board and that take his toll. To lose against a furniture? Never! To >give the slight suspicioin they are playing serious? Never! Let a >program play better than they in serious mode, without the ambiance of a >show? Never! Never...at laest you puit so much money as necesary to >overcome his egotistics consideratiosn of fame and honour. >Maybe I am mistaken, but that's my feeling. >Fernando Hi Fernando, good to hear from you... Well yes, I was considering that this is the type of organizer that lives to create chess shows; The blindfold, the blitz, the young strong women player's against old men! This guy Rentero is (to me), like the Barnam & Baily circus promoter - he will make almost anythng for the promotion of his circus. As for the chess players', None of them (except Kasparov, Kramnik ((and maybe Anand)), in my opinion have ever had any other motive about what kind of tournament to play in, if the money was right! They don't really care about the future of chess, or who the REAL WORLD CHAMPION is, or should be, they just want the money. I'd probably 'sell out' too, like this, If I was a top chess player and my life playing chess tournaments was based on every little expense. As Kirsan's FIDE has proved, It takes a very rare, (or incredibly successful), or just plain BIG NUT,(Like Bobby Fischer), to stand up and be counted, and say - NO, I will not play just because your offering me lot of money! - That's a rare chess grandmaster. (O.K., I think Hubner should be included, because he refuses to play computers under any circumstances, but not Ivanchuk (candidate NUT), because he (has)played in tournaments sponsored by computer companies, and then refuses to play the computer, and then (worse), who could forget this, complains about the sponsoring organzation having the computer's in the event!! No wonder chess has a harder time becoming 'legitamint', then something as boring! (to me), as Golf! Larry
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