Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 05:24:05 05/24/98
Hi all of you, After reading and viewing carefully, I think some extremely interesting stuff can be found on Chessbase Express 62 from Kasparov's visit in England. He speaks on all kind of matters, covered not only by text (and some simul games played there), but also by video and audio information. I found his comments quite open-minded (more than anything I heard from him since a while), for example admitting frankly that it probably was a big mistake he made to quit FIDE at a moment when things might have been changed from within much better than from outside. His respect for Fisher (it seems from his view besides Tal the most important chess player of this century ) is still great, not only concerning chess matters, but also because Fisher di a lot to gain the public respect and better income which has become fundemental for the best chess players living today. He regrets Fisher was not the right person to open the chess game for a wide, meanwhile interested public in 1972, but retired instead. What I found especially interesting were his views back on the Deep Blue match. Instead of revisionism just trying to put clouds around his loss (as I interpreted some of his first comments after the match) he meanwhile seems to be able to speak fankly about some problems concerning psychology and strategy which this match brought to him. One of them was the kind of pressure coming from the situation that he very rarely in his career had to play someone completely unknown to him, while his opponent not only knew every game from him, but also had access to any available piece of analysis on his games, all this interpreted by the help of three strong players/grandmasters helping to develop the oppent's strategy. There are some more interesting arguments and insights, and after reading them I more then ever ask myself if the whole IBM match ever was more than an extremely unfair kind of show with the singular aim to profit in a dirty way from the best chess player of the world - without much interest for computer science and experiencing. First I thought, no matter what IBM did, maybe the Deep Blue team was ok and did a great job. I doubt this now. Especially some of Mr. Hsus from my view quite questionable comments onng today. He regrets Fisher was not the right person to open the chess game for a wide, meanwhile interested public in 1972, but retired instead. What I found especially interesting were his views back on the Deep Blue match. Instead of revisionism just trying to put clouds around his loss (as I interpreted some of his first comments after the match) he meanwhile seems to be able to speak fankly about some problems concerning psychology and strategy which this match brought to him. One of them was the kind of pressure coming from the situation that he very rarely in his career had to play someone completely unknown to him, while his opponent not only knew every game from him, but also had access to any available piece of analysis on his games, all this interpreted by the help of three strong players/grandmasters helping to develop the oppent's strategy. There are some more interesting arguments and insights, and after reading them I more then ever ask myself if the whole IBM match ever was more than an extremely unfai
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