Author: Mig Greengard
Date: 03:33:13 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 04:00:41, Terry McCracken wrote: >One other question, how does Kasparov feel about all the rumours that the match >was fixed? > >This must be somewhat of a turnoff for him as he works hard to win, not play out >some pre-arranged game ot games! > >Regards, > Terry This is an easy one since we've heard insane theories about every match being fixed for decades. There are always a few people with nothing to lose to shout "fixed!". If these geniuses knew anything they would be able to predict the result instead of later making up theories that conform to the result. There were various accusations that the Kasparov-Kramnik world championship match in 2000 was going to be fixed in Garry's favor because he picked Kramnik as his opponent. Then Kramnik won. Oh, so it's all part of the fix, he'll give Kasparov a quick rematch for another million. No... Oh well. The lack of consequences for such frivolous statements make them easy to make, time after time. I haven't seen any mention of the Kasparov-X3D Fritz match being pre-arranged other than the rather desperate comments in message boards from people with zero information. Someone posting "THE MATCH WAS PRE-ARRANGED!" to a message board isn't a rumor, it's free speech. I'm sure the creative types here are quite capable of coming up with a very convincing conspiracy theory for every result from 3.5-0 to 0.5-3.5. Since Kasparov doesn't surf message boards I doubt he's heard anything of the sort, so the question wouldn't make any sense to him. As for me, I'd like one of these theorists to explain how pre-arranging the games would provide any benefit over playing them. And a benefit that could possibly tempt them to risk the disaster that would occur if such fixing were exposed. Nothing I can see to gain, everything to lose.
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