Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:27:55 02/08/03
Before we'll read here more fairy-tales and theories from a lot of well-meaning and kind of depressed and basically honest people I should interfere and make a couple of points. Of course this can't be a whole book yet, it's just a few points. I see a lot of confusion! Almost all comments on the 3-3 show event with Deep Junior and Kasparov miss one most important aspect. That Kasparov in truth, from his chess understanding [in terms of human chess] is miles or let's say 1000 times higher than that of the machine. I would say _each_ machine! That is also the reason why I will claim against all CC knowies, and I am sure that I am right, that if Kasparov has Elo 2880 [human chess] then the actual chess machines have [estimated for fierce human tournament chess, FIDE rules] Elo 2400-max 2500. That taken as the truth for a moment, question must be allowed WHY Kasparov didn't win without too much effort? Now I let aside all conspiracy ideas, all fatifue-fairy-tales and also all business reflections [for the latter I have made my points], but I want to lead the attention to the most important aspect. Let's find a judgement about such a chess genius. Kasparov is in human chess extremely successful from his early youth on. I still enjoy the way he defeated Korchnoi in 1982 in the candidates. Also at the Olympiad in Lucerne[?]. Kasparov had an extremely deep calculation power. Korchnoi was without a chance. But with a bit tongue in cheek we could say that Korchnoi today is stronger than Kasparov today. I would say that Kasparov today is making more oversights /blunders than Korchnoi at the time in 1982 when he was older than Kasparov today! How is that possible. Since this is just a short thesis, I conclude a tempo: Kasparov with his extremely high talent always was more as gambler than a dedicated chessplayer, chess enthusiast. His whole behaviour at the board is proving it. There is simply a mistake in his self-perception. He simply made the wrong conclusions about chess when he won his games - due to his early talent - with his will power. But today he has lost his talent. And all his ticks remai kind of ridiculous - without meaning, empty. Kasparov lives on the base of his high status ad expects the respect of the opponents. And that does function against human opponents, because they all know his record. But what is now with these machines? No, a machine has no respect! In 1997 Kasparov therefore put the blame on the operating crew. Already there he blundered in the final position of the second game. A last time he could confuse the World and distract of his blunder. But now in the third game 2003 he made a comparable blunder. A computer proved the decline of Kasparov's main chess talent. Exact and deep calculation. Perhaps not even because of a real process of decline but in effect through a mental aging process with a shift ito the direction of his basic genetic characteristics. To make it short again: Kasparov is no scientist and ever was. It seems to me that he doesn't even know what logic is. Otherwise he could never behave with such illogical stupidity regarding the crucial game i 1997. I myself I couldn't believe that such a genius could be so plain stupid in that regard although Bob Hyatt discovered it right from the beginning. Because he knew the science side of the crew. Since I didn't know them I, as a chess player, believed Kasparov. But now this show event proved me wrong. Kasparov simply doesn't know what consistence is all about. He's naive like a child in the world of machines where's no room for "blind respect", where only naked facts count. And the facts proved Kasparov not only wrong but his main weakness. Wow, I should have taken more serious the troubling linkage between Kasparov and his liking of the supernatural. Yes, his roots are based in a world of the irrational, religious South in almost Asia. Far away from the rational hights of China! ;) This is a short version with many steps left aside. Rolf Tueschen
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