Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 18:22:44 10/29/00
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On October 29, 2000 at 19:27:03, Terry Ripple wrote: >On October 29, 2000 at 19:17:52, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On October 29, 2000 at 18:45:20, Rory wrote: >> >>>Is there a possibility that this match is a fix? Gary and Vlad seem a bit overly >>>friendly for two people that are supposed to be contending for the crown. >>>Gary has always heaped praise on Vlad and I'm wondering if he sees him as his >>>'son' and rightful heir. Therefore if Gary won Vlad would have to go back into >>>the mix and await another shot or fix (remember Shirov)during which time some >>>'undesirable' like Leko might have emerged who could take the title for real. >>>SOoooo lets keep it in the Family (well kind of :)) and let Vlad take it. >>>Am I the only person thinking this??? >> >>All that I read is excuses after excuses from all of you, I mentioned it before >>the match began that every great Chess players of the past have their time of >>prime and their time to step down and Kasparov just like all the others from the >>past is not an exception. Let celebrate and give credit to the talented >>young chess star Kramnik, Anand could have done the same back in New York, but >>he didn't have the will power and determination that Kramnik posesses. >> >>Pichard. > >Lets get real! >Can't you see that Kasparov isn't even playing top notch chess, if he was doing >what he is supposed to do then Kramnik would have atleast a tuff match to win >the title. Kasparov hasn't done much in opening prep. > >Plus, he needs to play sharp openings in order to have any kind of chance at >this point in the match! > >Regards,Terry Terry if you have not noticed it and most of you haven't is not in the opening where Kramnik is outplaying Kasparov it is in the middlegame, simply replay Game 2 and game 10 to see my point. The last game could have gone either way, but Kasparov was not ready to face Kramnik in the middlegame for another 20 hard fought moves. He was probably mentally too exhausted to continue this hard battle which required a lot of energy. Pichard.
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