Author: Mark Young
Date: 11:18:44 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 09:05:28, Jorge Pichard wrote: >According to Bobby Fisher all recent chess Championship matches are pre-arranged >with the help of computers. GM Fischer is paranoid and stuck in the past. He is correct that in his day the Soviets and Soviet players prearranged many matches and games. When the Soviets could control the outcome of matches and games and it was in their interest to do so. The Soviet authorities had the power and used it. It is my understanding that GM Karpov was the last player to be helped in this way by the Soviet authorities. I have not seen any evidence that GM Kasparov in the 1985 match with GM Karpov was prearranged. For GM Fischer to suggest that all top-level chess today is prearranged is far outside any evidence I feel he could produce. GM Fischer also claimed that standard chess is now “played out” This is not the first time a former World Champion has made this claim, and it is still wrong today. Standard chess is far from being played out, and there is no need to change the game to Fischer Random chess. I often wonder how such great players who eat breath and sleep chess and have such a high degree of understanding of the game of chess can also claim that chess is “played out”. I guess arrogance and contempt is a needed weapon if you want to reach the top of the chess world. > > >Do you follow chess at all? >I follow the old chess, I follow all the pre-arranged matches, like the last >Kramnik-Kasparov match. At the highest level it is all pre-arranged, move by >move. You have very interesting, beautiful pre-arranged games being created by >very intelligent players, working with computers, working in teams. I have no >objections to people creating such games, but they must say these are >pre-arranged games, but they must not claim that they are finding the moves over >the board. I have learned so much from these pre-arranged matches and all these >cooked-up notes, they're wonderful. But they are fake, they are flawed. Somebody >should ask Kasparov about my charges, that his first match against Karpov was >pre-arranged move by move. Somebody should ask him, record his answer when he >answers it live, and then put this through a lie detector. You will see he is >lying through his rotten teeth.
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