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Subject: Re: Nice Talk with Karpov After Boring Discourses about Karpov and Els

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 21:17:11 10/05/05

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On October 05, 2005 at 22:55:25, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>
>On October 05, 2005 at 13:01:15, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
<snip>
>>First, to say it straight, Karpov has a somewhat disdainful vision of the
>>"computer chess" world. He does not know a bit and he care less about the who is
>>who of it. He does not know nothing about Fruit or Zappa or any of the other
>>current new, strong programs. He said to me, always smiling:
>>- All that is a realm of toys. Yes, those things play strong in blitz, but
>>that's all... I have not too much relation with such things even if my son is
>>very engaged in programming, as you know....
>>-But Mr Karpov -I replied- some of those toys can win long games to seasoned
>>masters and even GM's..
>>-Yeah -he said- , some can do it here and there, but not on a regular base.
>>Besides I will tell you something that it is never said: It is very difficult
>>for a GM to play seriously with those contrivances, even if money is on the
>>stake. You can try, but to not avail. Your deeper mind say to you that you are
>>facing a toy and then you cannot put all of yourself in front of the board.
>
>Sad to see this sort of nonsense, which is surely the product of arrogance
>combined with ignorance.
>

Karpov gave the same lame excuse about Kasparov, claiming that he couldn't
muster enough passion to play his best chess against Garry.

-Peter



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