Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:13:56 04/09/01
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On April 09, 2001 at 13:43:56, Terry McCracken wrote: >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. I don't find it funny at all those accusations but i will be the last to deny them. In western world we hugely overestimate how criminal the east has become under 80 years of communism, because doing any legal business was for 80 years forbidden as everything legal was stolen directly by the government, hence everything had to be done illegally. >Hey I'll be the first retract if wrong doing at this level is found to be true. >However, it's highly unlikely. Well sometimes i find rules of banks very criminal too you know :) >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! Kramnik is by far the best. Except for an obvious Rxb7 novelty in Gruenfeld Kramnik has not showed very good openings. Like the second Berliner game they played kasparov was bigtime won as in so many games, yet kasparov blew it game after game. sometimes in middlegame, sometimes in endgame. It's easy to conclude that Kramnik is technical the far superior player, let's first agree on that! Then secondly it's clear that kasparov had large advantage in nearly all games after opening, except that Gruenfeld game. Kramnik showed however that if you're such a great player as Kramnik is, that you can play very unsound lines against a worldchamp like Kasparov. Hence the conclusion is obvious that though kasparov was surprised a lot, he obviously got better out of his openingspreparement, but that he was basically outplayed in the game and not in opening! On the other hand Kasparov is the far more aggressive prepared player in openings. Some grandmasters like Shirov play very dubious lines sometimes and even defend them by playing them. Then Kasparov strikes and gets a free point again. This is why kasparov without doubt is the best tournament player ever seen so far. If you play very risky lines, then Kasparov has usually already won before move 20. Then it takes a few moves to show it to the audience too and you resign. Best regards, Vincent >Terry
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