Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:55:41 02/02/01
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On February 02, 2001 at 12:56:59, jonas cohonas wrote:
>On February 02, 2001 at 10:39:04, Vicente Fernández wrote:
>
>>http://www.chesslines.com/petition/petitioninternational.html
>
>I quite like the new time control, why would you like people to
>sign a petition??
>Im just curious, and since you dont say why you dont like the new TC
>please elaborate :-)
>
>Regards
>Jonas
As far as I'm concerned, that'll be killing chess, but you have to realize
some of what drew me to chess in the first place. In a sense it reminds me a bit
of what that 'friend' of Short wrote after the latter's loss to Kasparov. It was
something along the lines of 'scoring cheap moral victories in the post-mortem'.
Hans Ree's comment on it was right on the money. He said that it was obviously
the comment of a non-player (depite the book's references to the friend's talent
as a youth), for what ever happened to truth and the pursuit of it? That has
always been the appeal in it for me. Certainly the aesthetics of the game and
the blood in the competition were dominating factors as well, but the idealist
in me was above all interested in getting down to the heart of it, trying to get
a little closer to the absolute. Where has that all gone now? Is chess to be
reduced to a mental video game, blasting pieces left and right in the hopes of
scoring some points and an extra buck. That has always been an option of course,
but now that will be the _only_ option as you can kiss that dream of finding the
best move good-bye. Even if you do hit on it as subsequent analysis may reveal,
it won't be because you saw through all the main possibilities and after careful
consideration were able to reach the proper conclusion.
The FIDE president will have managed to introduce a factor that has never
been really linked to chess before: luck. Nimzowitsch once said that it was
necessary to hone one's positional skill and intuition in order to free oneself
of the prison of variations. Seems that that's all we'll have left.
Albert
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