Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 13:10:19 02/02/01
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On February 02, 2001 at 15:55:41, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Dear Albert, I empathize with you completely. Please don't speak in the past tense about your values. I don't believe it.
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