Author: allan johnson
Date: 22:56:17 11/13/03
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On November 13, 2003 at 23:34:47, Timmay wrote: >On November 13, 2003 at 22:18:00, steven blincoe wrote: > >> >>What a noble purpose! It seems to me that in itself earns him the right >>>to sit in that chair aside from his obvious gift for the game. >> >> >>whatever Kasparov has done for chess has nothing to do with nobility >>it has to do with money..his money >>whatever he could make for himself regardless of the consequences >>not that that there is anything wrong with making money from his ability but >>noble? >> >>was taking back the knight move against Judit ..noble? >>the entire Grandmaster's association fiasco ..noble? >>his getting back into bed with the the president of Fide(a murderer)noble? >>his berating of the brilliany prize judges (after awarding the brilliancy prize >>to a game he lost)noble? >>his accusing the Deep Blue team of cheating(a view he still holds to this >>day)..noble?? >>his demanding to start a game over during a recent simul (because the player was >>rated higher then the maximum rating for the simul participants)..noble? >> >>i can go on and on... >> >>i dont even think Kasparov himself would consider himself to be a noble person > >Neither of us were there when the event with Garry and Judit happened. However, >Judit's stated many times that everyone over-reacted with what actually >happened. Anyhow, I'm sure Judit can fend for herself. > >The GMA was too a noble intention. Though the result indicated maybe it was too >big of a responsibility to take on at that time, he did it to retain the >positive history of classical chess (he already was a multi-millionaire, money >wouldn't be a primary motivator). He's led the initiative to help other >grandmasters as well. > >Hmmm....getting in bed with president Kirsan. I'm not "quite" sure if that's an >accurate portrayal of the current events.....grin. What I see is that Garry is >upholding the contract he signed in good faith in the Prague Unity Agreements! >Was Garry "in bed" with Kirsan when he cancelled the match with Ponomariov? He >was quite peeved after that, but forged ahead without a big complaint for the >greater good of the reunification. > >In Linares 2003, he DID go overboard. He completely over-reacted, I concur, >you're right. But you and I both know he had a good point. There was nothing >brilliant about that game. Radjabov was an inferior position the whole game >until the last 2-5 moves where Kasparov blundered. All it was, was the >"infallible" Kasparov being beat by an up-and-coming star. Anyhow, he publically >apologized after that event. He's human after all. > >As far as starting over the game, it was clearly stated that those were the >rules ahead of time (2000+). It was noble of Kasparov to continue to play him as >opposed to have him kicked out by the tournament organizers for a clear >violation of the rules. (I'm not picking on him, because it was the organizers >fault actually, but my point is it was a violation of the rules which were known >ahead of time at the end of the day, and Kasparov didn't object to play him >still). > >As far as money is concerned, you can't hound him for being successful. He has >an amazing work ethic, and is a shrewd businessman on the side of being a >fantastic chess player. He's made himself successful by working hard. I >personally think he's given more to chess then he's received. That's just my >personal opinion on how he's affected me. > >"I don't even think Kasparov would consider himself a noble person." Come on >now, you know that's a huge assumption based on nothing. Depends on what you mean by noble I guess.In a very loose sense the cap might fit but I would probably use the adjectives,talented, creative,selfish ambitious rather than noble to describe Kasparov. Al
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