Author: george petty
Date: 15:14:06 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 16:26:55, Carl McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 14:22:14, Miguel Arrospide wrote: > >>I have been following the discussions about Kasparov and Hsu. Some people seems >>to miss the point. The point is that Kasparov is afraid. >>Is Hsu asking Kasparov to play a match for FREE? No. So then what's the big >>deal. Let's say Chessbase asks Kasparov to play a match with Fritz 20 for 2 >>million dollars . Do you think Kasparov would turn that money down? of course >>not. Rememeber Chess history. When unreasonable demamds were placed on the >>challenger (such as collecting a big purse) it was done because the Champion was >>afraid that he might lose. Lasker did it to Capa. Capa to Alekhine. Alekhine to >>Capa. Botvinnik with his rematch clause did the same to the others. >>Kasparov is one of the greatest chess players ever, but he is afraid. Kasparov >>could have said to Hsu. Ok Ill play with your machine for $2 million but he >>chose to ignore the challenge. >>Lots of people accussed a few years ago IBM of not being "willing" to finance >>another match. Yeah Right....! After Kasparov call them a cheat. I like Kasparov >>but I can not defend his behavior anymore. He tried to change FIDE for his own >>advantage. He found the PCA and then some other Association and then abandoned >>them. He did not like Campomanes but then he made up with him when it serve his >>purposes. He was a sore loser when he lost to IBM. He wanted a rematch and now >>he refuses. He did not want to play Shirov.etc. etc. We need some Champion like >>Max Euwe really bad. > > >Kasparov only did what anyone would have done: trying to get the most out of the >situation as he could. He is a professional chess player. Further, it seemed >that IBM and the Deep Blue team were the ones that were afraid. They were in no >hurry to give Kasparov a rematch. This was only a 6 game match. So don't start >throwing stones at the world champion, who is, I might remind, in a strata most >of us don't seem to appreciate. I hope he plays Deep whatever again a smashes it >to bits--playing FIDE World Championship Rules, that is. I agree with you!
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