Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 08:34:24 05/24/98
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On May 24, 1998 at 08:24:36, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: >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. Are you really interested in a bad guy like Kasparov ? He splitted the chess community, he did not wanted to pay, like all of us have to pay fees in their chess-club, and he left fide. I guess he is not a good champion. He never was. He is a shame for the chess community. he plays good and strong chess. But aside from these 2 facts he is an asshole. Unable to lose like a gentleman, cheating against women. >His respect for Fisher (it seems from his view besides Tal the most >important chess player of this century ) is still great, Aha. After ALL he has said about Fischer, he suddenly is still a fischer fan??? Come on. He can never play in one league like fischer. He made jokes about fischer. Although fischer was his idol in his youth. He was afraid that he had to play against Fischer. He was feared. And now - suddenly he has not enough money, and wants the new fide-money since NOBODY really wants to sponsor an asshole like him. And now he wants to come back to fide. I say: throw him out. He does not deserve honor or fame. He is a pain. > 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. Yes - thats what Kasparov is interested. In making money !! Dirk - you disapoint me. I don't need a primadonna like Kasparov. Chess needs people like Seiravan, or Bronstein, or even Fischer (despite his antisemitic-ambitions) : but Kasparov ? Pah - >He regrets Fisher was not the right person to open the chess game for a >wide, meanwhile interested public in 1972, but retired instead. I regret Kasparov did not retire so far. Would be better. >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. And ? We were able to see this directly after the 2nd game. I would have expected that a strong player like Kasparov together with a professional like Fred would not need this LONG TIME. He needed THIS TIME to understand WHY he lost. How old is he ? 4 ? >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. Profit from an asshole ? Oh - the poor poor kasparov. Now he will go into history as the mega-loser. I like this. It makes me better the more I consider about it. >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 on fairness in the match posted here >by Keith Ian Price (if I remember correctly) have not done much to >strengthen my trust in the critical awareness of the scientific members >of the Deep Blue team: concerning what they did as willing helpers of an >IBM advertising campaign, or in their nearly paranoid attempt to get the >chance to beat Kasparov by any means. IBM did what anybody could expect them to do BEFORE the match. If Kasparov and his advisors had not considered about what a commerical company is interested, they are naive. What do you think, that IBM is a caritative foundation with a social aim to help characterless asshole grandmasters ? >The whole team does not really have my respect any longer looking back >now - and this although in contrast to others I really follow Bob Hyatts >arguments that they did an impressive job in computerchess! The more time passes, the more respect do I have for IBM. And the more time passes, the less respect I have for people like Kasparov and Co. >Perhaps just not quite the job they want us make believe :-) > >So the whole thing was no really impressive hour - neither for computer >science nor for human history - from my view looking back now after the >the comments from both IBM and Hsu on one hand and Gary Kasparov on the >other. It was a shame for all chess players that one of the strongest chess players has behaved as usual, as we always see him behave. Miserable. As if he has no proud and no ethics. Sportmanship is something Kasparov has to learn. And how to do a good job as a world-chess-champion. But I forgot, he was no world-chess-champion. He left fide, he is only pca-champion. He lost anything. >All in all: >I don't know if CB express 62 has already been announced here before, >but I had a lot of fun in reading and viewing it. > > >Kind regards from Dirk From your comments it STOPS me from wanting to read it. Thanks - so I will never register it again.
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