Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:14:40 10/20/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 08:43:28, Eelco de Groot wrote: >Worldchamp Kramnik and Frederic Friedel were in a short newsitem on television, >on the BBC newsservice yesterday. Kramnik said that he really didn't have any >emotions just yet now, and was tired. "It was a tough match. Especially it was a >long match". Frederic said that initially they thought they were going to be >rooted (is that routed Tina?) with something like 7-1, then Fritz was able to >capitalize on a mistake of Vladimir's, next Fritz refuted an opening (What game >was that exactly? Not that I doubt Frederic Friedel's word, but I'm afraid I >just missed that.) Now suddenly, Friedel said, Kramnik got tired, nervous and >lost conviction in his play. > >It is strange but it seems that emotions tend to play a big role in such >chessmatches even or especially because one participant has an emotional IQ of >around 30. Shakesperean quoting or not. Kramnik's tiredness is I think >convincing enough that he didn't consider this match just as an opportunity to >make money. If he had won he would have earned much more. I hope that it is going to be proved by not playing another match against kramnik. There are other humans that should get the opportunity to try to beat Fritz like Smirin or Anand and Kramnik should not get a prize for failing to beat it. Uri
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