Author: stuart taylor
Date: 08:49:38 07/20/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 22:08:34, Steve wrote: >On July 19, 2000 at 13:46:24, Dan Ellwein wrote: > >>Emcee. What defeat was the most painful to you? >> >>G.K. I lost only one game to Deep Blue. > >He lost three by anyone else's count. > > However it was not the defeat itself >>that hurt me so much, but my own light-mindedness before the match. Well, it was >>still possible to insist on a complete check-out of the computer, but I didn't >>do this. This defeat produced a really oppressive impression on me and a long >>time had passed before I recovered. And now I am proud that after such a loss in >>1997, aged 34, I managed to start anew and in a year's time I began to win all >>the tournaments again. > >Yes, what heroism. Lance Armstrong (who merely battled cancer) and returned to >win the Tour de France could no doubt learn a lot from a man who has managed to >deal so successfully with the LOSS OF A STUPID CHESS GAME. >> >>Excerpts from a speech before the students of >>The Humanitarian University >>St. Petersburg, April 10, 2000. If Kasparov looked at it as a stupid chess game, he wouldn't be Kasparov! For him, what he went through was a challenge. He might also be intimidated by your comparrisson, but you can't really compare.
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