Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:52:57 03/04/01
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On March 04, 2001 at 13:01:56, Jay Rinde wrote: >On March 04, 2001 at 12:30:57, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On March 04, 2001 at 08:52:34, liam hearns wrote: >> >>>bobby fisher is a creative chess player who does not depend only on book >>>knowledge,he would have outplayed and out witted the huge chess library d.b. he >>>has never been given the huge credit he deserves for making chess so poplar,u >>>here almost no mention of him during the great tournaments.perhaps he has his >>>problems but chess is not for saints. >> >>Yes, and if had wings instead of arms he could outfly an F16, if he had wheels >>instead of feet he could win the Indy 500, and if he had a rocket nozzle instead >>of an ... >> >>Well, you get the idea. >> >>The problem here is that Fischer went nuts sometime prior to 1974, and threw >>away his career, so nobody will know what he could have done had he *not* gone >>nuts. It is so boring seeing posts that essentially start out with, "If Fischer >>had not gone nuts, he could have ..." The problem is that he did go nuts. >> >>That's too bad, and it's a tragedy that he threw away his career and gave away >>his money and became rabidly anti-semitic and became a complete paranoid, but >>that's physical reality. Fischer did not have a career during the 80's and 90's >>(discounting the one match with Spassky in '92), so there is no telling what he >>could have done. >> >>And in any case, it doesn't really matter in the current context. I think that >>the DB versus Kasparov match was a fluke result, so it's not necessary to find a >>crazy person if you want to find someone who can beat it. >> >>But guess what, that's another case of something that threw away its career. >>There's no telling what DB could have done, if the marketing dweebs hadn't >>unplugged it. That machine is like a kid who stops playing the first time he >>beats his dad. >> >>So now we are talking about two players that don't play and will probably never >>play again. Talking about the future potential of people who may as well be >>dead is incredibly boring. There was an opportunity there for a nice future. >>That opportunity was squandered, and this is disappointing. I think that anyone >>who decides that the way to deal with this disappointment is to live in the past >>forever, is making a big mistake. >> >>bruce > >Well, of course we all know that Paul Morphy could have beaten DB. But, alas, >not only did he go nuts but he died. But, who knows, maybe Paul came back as a >computer called DB and beat Kasparov, fluke or no fluke. > >Jay That however gives Deep Blue credit it doesn't derserve.
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