Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:33:54 05/05/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 20:45:50, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On May 04, 2002 at 20:30:18, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On May 04, 2002 at 10:50:59, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I strongly believe that the reason for Bobby Fischer to vanish from chess for >>>olmost 30 Years, was that he feared Anatoly Karpov. >> >>Apparently your brain wasn't doing the thinking when you made this statement. >> >>Russell > >Why are you saying that, Fischer in the 70s was considered to be an invencible >playing machine, but he realized that the only two players that could take his >title away from him were Anatoly Karpov and if not a couple of years later Gary >Kasparov. > >Pichard. Take a look at Fischer's life. He played when his demands were met. He never didn't play because he was scared of losing. He believed he was the best player in the world (and rightly so). He believed he was the best player in the world from well before the age of 10 until (probably) today. If he was afraid of losing, he probably wouldn't have attempted a world championship run. He was up against some pretty stout competition. Some of the best ever. While I personally share your belief that Kasparov might have been able to knock Fischer off when his time came around 10-15 years later, I'm not so sure about Karpov. I think it would have been a good match, and a Karpov win wouldn't have shocked me, but I believe Fischer would have been the likely winner, and by no means was Karpov so drastically superior to everyone else in the world to accomplish something that no one else had done before, put fear into Bobby Fischer. If you want to bring out some facts and start backing up what you're saying, then perhaps we can discuss this. But if you (and others) are only going to speculate as to what might have happened with no real evidence or information to backup what you are saying, then I don't see much point in discussing the issue since it's not based in reality at that point. As far as I can tell, when you bring in the evidence, your statement seems silly. If you'd like to show me I'm wrong, please do. Russell
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