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Subject: Forget Kasparov

Author: Ingo Althofer

Date: 08:32:49 02/09/03

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On February 08, 2003 at 14:54:18, Mark Loftus wrote:
>The draw was indeed disappointing...
>But I think there were some positive things coming out of this.
>First, that there was television coverage at all for chess.
>Kasparov seems to have done for popularizing chess what we had
>hoped Fischer would do, before he left the game.

You are naive. What Kasparov did in game 6 was the worst
he could do for our beloved game. Can you imagine a single
TV station being interested in more of this stuff?


>Now if we can get more matches televised, ...

Unrealistic after what happened on Friday!

Kasparov destroyed so many sponsoring tracks in chess:
* in the mid-90's the Intel Grand Prix
* in 97 the IBM interest
* he was not able to make the Microsoft cooperation longlasting
* now his "anti TV campaign" on Friday

Forget him with his always jumping mind.
Our game needs better PR!

Ingo Althofer.



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