Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 10:43:56 04/09/01
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On April 09, 2001 at 11:55:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 08, 2001 at 14:23:35, Rajen Gupta wrote: > > >>hi: in todays 'news of the world'(british newspaper)on pg 12 i read that the >>police are investigating the braingames company and its chairman for being a > >Braingames chairman is Raymond Keene. > >>front for the russian mafia; specifically about allegations of having laundered >>£3 million in dirty money. (it does n't say anything about the match being fixed >>although it does mention that the company ''braingames''which was created to >>organise the world chess championship was a front for money laundering by the >>russian mafia. >> >>sounds a bit fishy to me > >Many tournaments in this world, also non-chess tournaments >are getting sponsored and received in past sponsorship from >what we in western world call 'dubious grounds'. > >Let's just remember olympic games 1936 Berlin (Hitler), >world championships soccer 1972 in Argentina (Fidela), >Olympic games 1980 Moscow (SSSR), >match fischer around 1992 against his old opponent >and even close in the computerchess world we had >also our computerchess world championship in Jakarta >where i didn't go to for that reason. > >However, whereever the money came from, i'm sure that Kasparov didn't >lose intentionally. Instead he tried obviously hard to push for victory >and failed because Kramnik is simply a way better player in all respects >except opening preparement. > >>rajen > >Vincent First I think that this thread has had a humorous side to it, as it was so preposterous! But this last piece has me almost "rolling in the aisles", I think we can't put _any_ credibility in such rumors. Like the Russian Mafia etc. Hey I'll be the first retract if wrong doing at this level is found to be true. However, it's highly unlikely. I do agree that Kasparov did'nt throw the match, he simply lost. As for Kramnik being a much better player is completely unfounded. It's the other way around, well almost, as Kramnik is an excellent player. It was Kasparov who was completely out prepared in the opening and hence his inevitable loss. Kramnik is Great....Kasparov is Best! Terry
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