Author: T. Dex
Date: 06:31:01 09/10/01
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Headline News (CNN) Had a mentioned Fisher playing Chess on the Internet also.. 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.
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