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Subject: Re: Bobby Fischer claims that Championship matches are prearranged ?

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 12:25:38 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.


Yeah, and as I read it he doesn't play "normal" chess anymore. Turned down
a multi million offer of playing some Icelandic champion. He just plays
Fischer random nowadays. So forget all rumours about games on ICC.




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>
>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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