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Subject: FISCHER IS A CHESS LEGEND, GK ONLY A CHESSPLAYER

Author: Carlos Lantigua

Date: 22:22:29 03/11/03

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On March 11, 2003 at 07:19:05, Rolf Tueschen 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.
>
>First of all this is complete nonsense!
>
>1) There is no official definition of a beauty prize!
>
>2) Therefore such a prize has a "social" implementation in an event.
>
>3) This time the prize was somewhat a "recompensation" for a brilliant stamina
>which is not the same as brilliant, correct chess. Comensation for the kid who
>came in last. Not the worst example for consolation!
>
>4) But Kasparov, the Autist, is incapable of feeling such implementations, such
>implications, in short, in reality he, Kasparov, is the KID, not Radjaboj. Both
>had their mama at hand, yes, but Kasparov is 40 and the youngster is just
>turning 15 to 16!!!
>
>5) Now let's analyse the real scandal. Was it that K. was offended and shouted
>to the invited and journalists? No. The real scandal is something else! And it
>has almost psychiatric dimensions. Beyond the chess ranking Kasparov has the
>same rights, human rights, like all the rest of the people. The rest of the
>people have their own right independent of Kasparov. But, and that is the point,
>Kasparov is seeing himself as the center of interest, as if the whole event is
>only organized to his benefit. More, all the other people are only there to
>please him and his mommy. He is God and all others useful idiots each one on his
>functional place. But that other people have their own reality and a reality
>that could be well above the one of a Kasparov, all this is unknown to the chess
>genius.
>
>6) Frederic Friedel one of those important persons, who probably assisted in the
>early development of Kasparov in the West as the spoilt gourmet child, writes:
>"Instead, the fact that he was essentially correct in his allegations will be
>lost amid the accusations that he is a sore loser. We knew that already,
>however, and even have a certain degree of admiration for Kasparov's childlike
>emotional honesty. There is no spin, no false smile."
>This is completely false and only shows how Fred is himself a child in questions
>of educastion and psychology. Psychopathology is the field that comes to mind
>when someone acts like mad only because he has a point to make which in itself
>has certain good reasons. But does that alow public amoking? Exactly the gaffe
>without self-control or worse with the egoistic misjudment of the whole
>situation, that is a pathologic fact. Friedel, the lay psychologist, sees
>childlike honesty in madness. Of course that is only working if the whole event
>is seen through the eyes of Kasparov. The child always say "I, I will have, no,
>better, I must have". And this should be honest if expressed by a 40 year old
>man-kid with mommy near-by? No way!
>And also, he was essentially correct with his allegations? No way! He didn't
>even understand why Radjaboj got the prize. Perhaps for the same reasons his
>unconscousness told him to lose against the kid after he had sacked those
>million dollars for literally nothing!
>
>7) And Jorge, I always thought Jorge could be a good pseudonym for Freddy,
>speaks of the greatest chess genius of all times. What a mistake! No one ever
>can touch the heights of Bobby Fischer. Note well! Bobby did not play with
>mommy. He could already go to the loo on his own when he was 16 and
>participating in the Wch circus. Also in his chess Bobby was all alone on
>himself. He did it all on his own while Garry had the great Soviet support
>machine. Nothing bad against the trainer system in the former USSR. But Bobby
>must be regarded as the greater genius because he did it all on his own. So,
>this repetition of nonsense does not become true also if posted on a daily base.
>Not Kasparov, but Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess genius of all times. And
>let's wait a couple of years, then we will see that also Karpov is above
>Kasparov! Kramnik and younger players might show their height, so that Kasparov
>could be forgotten.
>
>8) Ok, I dare it. If Judit Polgar is so good because she's a woman in the male
>circus, then Kasparov is so successful because his opponents are distracted by
>the madness in his habits. Perhaps it's a subconscious compassion with the
>Autist.
>
>
>Rolf Tueschen
>
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=851



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