Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 13:03:05 07/17/03
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On July 17, 2003 at 15:53:27, Sally Weltrop wrote: >On July 17, 2003 at 15:40:12, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>On July 17, 2003 at 11:19:52, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On July 17, 2003 at 02:02:50, Sally Weltrop wrote: >>> >>>>>Why would he play for $100,000 when he is already a millionaire? >>>> >>>>WHy take an appearance fee then which he does everytime at these events? >>> >>>Because there is always someone willing to pay it? The fault of that lies not >>>with Kasparov, but with the organizer or whoever decides to pay it. Do you mean >>>to tell me that if your boss told you that you were going to start getting >>>thousands of extra dolloars for just showing up that you would refuse that? >> >>it's because they know that GK wouldn't even think of appearing without an >>appearance fee, plain & simple >>> >>> >>>>>What's with all of the "last stand" crap? Who does he owe anything to? >>>> >>>>Owes to himself and his mouth because consistently he has been proven wrong in >>>>trying to beat the comps in a match, excuses,excuses. >>> >>>He could use some humbling, no doubt, but I don't see that he owes anyone else >>>anything. If he owes something to himself, as you say, then it is none or your >>>concern, or the concern of anyone else on the internet, but you see these kind >>>of "Kasparov should take a last stand for humanity" crap type postings on the >>>internet frequently, which indicates that you and others think he owes you >>>something, not himself. >> >>he doesn't owe me nothing. Who am I. He's the one with the mouth and always >>making lame excuses OR just in it for the money and then saying,"It's us verse >>the machines. > > >I mean look at the drawn match verse Junior. He states, > > "From a personal perspective, I still think I'm capable of beating machines. >When I played Deep Junior in New York I was under very heavy pressure - and I >had less than 2 weeks of preparation. I think I was dominating the match before >I chose to go for a draw. What was positive was that it was human mistakes that >actually helped the machine to tie the match. When I played good moves I was >dominating. It was my big mistakes that changed the match." > >so we see here, I only had 2 weeks, blah,blah, whine,whine,whine. Read further >abouth the mistakes,... like I kind of think that is a factor in any match so >drop that line. > > >Now let's look at the DB match. > >Human intervention! That looked ridiculous. > >his latest escapade was RADJABOV beating him in the Linares 2003 tournament: > >http://www.geocities.com/MIGHTORS1/Radjabov/kasparov-Radjabov_linares2003.html Here's another beautiful link: "Kasparov's outburst over beauty prize in Linares" http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=851
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