Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 18:02:22 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 20:17:59, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 14:16:51, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On February 25, 2002 at 12:44:41, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>>On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused). >>> >>>He could gain another million dollar or something about that for a rematch, why >>>is he so reluctant...I can't understand frankly (could he be afraid of D.B. ?). >>> >>>Otello. >> >>There are probably several factors going into his decision not to play. >> >>1. He's rich as it is. He's not going to drool over another $1 million like the >>rest of us. >> >>2. He's not as good as he used to be. He's still among the top players in the >>world, but as we have seen from even the recent Linares tournament, he plays >>sub-optimal moves occasionally. In the Linares case, he got a draw when he >>should have gotten a win, which isn't THAT bad, but I have a feeling that a >>computer at the level of a third Deep Blue computer would smash him for any >>mistake. > >Not as good as he used to be??!! LOL you are talking about the guy that won 9 >super GM tournaments in a row! >He drew 2 games in Linares, does that say that he is out of form? let's wait >until the tournament is over before making any conclusions. He won 9 tournaments in a row. Fischer had some nice streaks in his day too, does that mean Fischer isn't slipping? Is Fischer in his prime today because he was on top of the world 30 years ago? Of course not! What he did years ago has little to do with his current level of play. As you so humbly pointed out, Kasparov was pretty much THE best chess player in the world, bar none, for over a decade. It is quite evident that he is not heads and shoulders above the rest of the pack anymore, and if you're missing that then maybe you should have been keeping up with chess for the last few years. >>So he doesn't really have any motivation or reason to play another computer >>match. They're offering money, he has money...and why should he risk another >>embarrasing loss? There's really no good reason he has for playing. > >Well motivation or the lack of it might be the keyword here, but not because he >is affraid to lose IMO. > >Jonas
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