Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 16:31:58 04/02/03
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On April 02, 2003 at 17:25:20, Martin Giepmans wrote: >On April 02, 2003 at 16:20:35, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml > >The last thing I heard about him (already some years ago) is that he retired >from professional chess and went to college to study medicine. It's a real shame too as he was talented. He still had some maturing to do as a person and chessplayer so I'm sure his strength would only increase. I can only speculate that he probably grew to hate the game with the constant unhealthy militant grind that his psychotic father pushed on him. I can see his point in getting a good education BUT with the payouts these days at the tourneys he'll never come close to that as a doctor PLUS the loads of money u have to pay to get your degree and THEN the work u lose because you have to go to college. hypothetical scenario 8 years college ------------------------------- $25,000 = $200,000 8 years (potential chess earnings) ----- $250,000 = $2,000,000 total loss $2.2 million dollars in his particular case let's just say he starts off as a doctor making $125,000 17.6 years to get it back! he must hate the game because he sure isn't doing it for finacial reasons. It also seems to me that he grew disillusioned with himself after his loss to Karpov in their match.
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