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Subject: Re: World championship titles

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 13:03:49 06/05/98

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On June 05, 1998 at 11:17:09, Danniel Corbit wrote:

>On June 05, 1998 at 05:04:50, Guido Schimmels wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 05, 1998 at 04:00:19, Danniel Corbit wrote:
>>
>>> If your life depends on chess [you are a GM] then you are smart enough
>>>to try them all and rich enough to buy them all.
>>
>>You really think GM's are rich ?
>> Karpov and Kasparow are, but most of the rest struggle if they are
>>professionals.
>Well, then...  They are not as smart as I thought.
>;-)


Life of almost all GMI is awful. You can hire a GM in whashington square
for a couple of bucks and even get from him to wass your car. In my
country all IM are poor creatures that has lost his careers -mostly in
engineering and law- and wander from one little town to another to see
if they can win a porice oif let us say 500 dollars. On the contrary,
really smart top players continued his careers and are now wealthy of
well to do professionals using his brain in normally well payed
activities. GM have sommething of the idiot-savant that sych literature
has described since long. I remember an studen in my college that was at
the dsame time the best of us playing chess but he was for uncapable to
solve just the simplest of differential e



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