Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 07:37:48 03/11/03
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On March 11, 2003 at 05:46:04, Mike Byrne wrote: >On March 11, 2003 at 05:15:54, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>A beauty prize should NOT have any blunder, and should be considered a beauty >>only on the merit of being a hard fought game, where forceful combinative play >>and originality are the main ingredient. This indeed was an insult to the >>greatest genius of all times in chess. >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=851 > >Agree, the only thing worse than awarding a most beautiful game prize to the >Kasparov-Radjabov game, is Kasparov's public reaction to it. Kasparov has >repeatedly and publicly displayed that he has "no class" and I don't care to >hear excuses how this was an insult, that is still no excuse for his reaction in >such a public setting. If he wanted to stew, he should have stewed in private >and not ruin the event for everyone else, especially for the 15 year old >Radjabov. Radjabov did nothing wrong , except play to best of his ability and >he has to endured this childish outburst from a grown man? Kasparov is one of >the worse sore losers that has ever played chess and IMO, that makes him a loser >in the game of life. > >It's time to go home now Garry, your mommy is calling you. > >As mentioned in the story, the good news is that nobody will ever have to worry >about losing to the 15 year old Radjabov after today... > >....He turns 16 tomorrow. I think if GK in a dignified,respectful manner responded to this he would have gotten a hearing ear in general in the chess community. With this outburst it only cements his being the greatest sore loser of all time!
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