Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:13:36 02/24/03
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On February 24, 2003 at 04:29:50, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On February 23, 2003 at 21:31:43, Carlos Lantigua wrote: > >>Kasparov is often considered the best chess player ever, the same for Michael in >>basketball, but both of them are loosing his forces, his countryman Radjavov >>gave him a lesson. Also Garry is 40 years of age(well, almost)like Michael. Do >>you think Garry should retire? > >Kasparov has reached his peak of his career, and only needs a little bit more >rest after playing against Deep Junior. It seems as if practicing to play >against computer programs the two Super GM Kasparov and Kramnik has shown that >it is hard to adjust to play humans in a short time. > >Pichard It is more than understandable that chess players from the former Soviet Union want financial security after they lost a whole system of fantastic support for their sport. But then they are not yet as corrupted as most Western players so that has the odd effect that after they raked a million for notting <cough> they have a kind of bad conscience when they meet their fellow partners in the usual business. So that has the described effect that they might spend a couple of (half) points always having in mind that they are still the (real) winners at the end of the year. In short, that does simply suck the fighting spirit that accompanied them for their whole career. There are only two solutions. Either they understand chess as a sort of aristocratic passtime or they go the perverted road for gamblers. If you observe them who live distributed over the whole world now, you can easily detect the categories. Political correctess forbids me to enter deeper into that topic. But for whom who knows to read it should be clear who can profit from such extraordinary times and who might stumble. Personally I do feel great compassion with those in the former chess empire who spent their life for the education of later chess genius. They are f*** all over in special in their old age. But all these young "buccaneers" (up to the generation of one Kasparov!) of chess would be nothing without the efforts of those heroes! Let's not forget them! And bigmouths like Kasparov should create a support fond instead of spending points to ease their conscience! Rolf Tueschen
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