Author: pavel
Date: 23:22:31 09/09/01
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On September 09, 2001 at 11:10:09, stuart taylor wrote: >On September 09, 2001 at 10:30:00, Brian Richardson wrote: > >>http://news.telegraph.co.uk >>Bobby Fischer takes on all comers - in cyberspace >>By Andrew Allerson, Chief Reporter >>(Filed: 09/09/2001) >> >> >>BOBBY FISCHER, who became world chess champion in 1972 by triumphing in the most >>famous match ever played, and who then retired to a hermit-like existence of >>total obscurity, has been discovered playing the game anonymously on the >>internet against fellow Grandmasters. >> >>The disclosure that Fischer has emerged from a virtual 30-year self-imposed >>exile is made today in The Sunday Telegraph Review by Nigel Short, the British >>Grandmaster who in 1993 was the official challenger to Garry Kasparov. >> >>Short says that he has played nearly 50 speed chess games against Fischer during >>the past year. >> >>"I am 99 per cent sure that I have been playing against the chess legend. It's >>tremendously exciting," said Short. He has overwhelming evidence that the man >>who beat him comfortably is the same man who defeated Boris Spassky, the Russian >>world champion, in an epic battle of the "superpowers" in Reykjavik in 1972. >> >>Afterwards Fischer disappeared from the public eye until 1992, when he briefly >>returned to play Spassky again for a 20th anniversary re-match in the-then >>pariah state of Serbia. Fischer won a prize of more than £2 million, playing >>brilliant chess, before disappearing again, hotly pursued by the US Government, >>which had indicted him for breaking the UN embargo of Serbia. >> >>Short had been told by a Greek Grandmaster last year that Fischer, now 58, had >>been playing anonymously on the internet, but was sceptical. Short, however, >>eventually arranged to play the anonymous opponent and during their games began >>"chatting" with him over the internet. >> >>In October last year, in the first of their four confrontations, Short lost 8-0. >>Short is one of the world's best speed chess players, and in 1995 drew a series >>of speed chess games 6-6 against Kasparov, the then world champion. >> >>Short says: "In my opinion Fischer is a much stronger speed chess player than >>Kasparov, which is incredible when one considers that at 58 he is virtually a >>geriatric in terms of the modern game." >> >>The final "proof" that Short was playing Fischer in cyberspace came when the >>Briton asked: "Do you know Armando Acevedo?" - an obscure Mexican player. The >>response was immediate: "Siegen 1970." Fischer had played Acevedo in the Siegen >>Chess Olympiad of 1970. "The guy was obviously trying to tell me something," >>said Short. >> >>Short initially intended to keep his games a secret, but decided to disclose >>them as rumours are spreading in the chess world of Fischer's apparent >>re-emergence. Fischer is believed to be living in Japan. >> >>Short fears that today's disclosure means he will never play Fischer again. But >>their games will live with him. "To me, they are what an undiscovered Mozart >>symphony would be to a music lover," he said. > >Oh no no no! So how am I going to be able to do that too, and after Short has >spilled the beans? I beg to be told the answer! Even though I've never yet >played over the internet, now I'll make sure to learn how to. > Ah, so Fischer isn't all that stupid. He is probably very familiar with the >latest chess-playing software. Perhaps he even reads, or posts on icdchess! >S.Taylor thats me ... :) pavs
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