Author: stuart taylor
Date: 15:57:45 12/19/04
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On December 19, 2004 at 17:02:34, Albert Silver wrote: >For those who haven't seen it, there is a very interesting 55-minute interview >available for download in MP3 at the ChessCafe site (http://www.chesscafe.com) >with Gary Kasparov on his new book dealing with Bobby Fischer among others. >There is also a transcription of the interview if you prefer to read it (and >pass it through a translator program). There are a lot of interesting elements, >including comments on his controversial statement that Fischer avoided the match >against Karpov in 1975 because he was afraid of him! > > Albert I quickly read the main points of this article, and I found it very enlightening. I suppose one might be able to trust Kasparov's assesments of things now, and it's very interesting and different from what I always thought. I always thought that Fisher was always favourite to beat Kasparov and keep his title for quite a time. Korchnoi believed so (or claimed that). I thought that it was simply Fide who let things slip, in order to not let Fisher get his way too much. But Kasparov explains things very differently. According to that, Fisher was smart in staying undefeated, by not playing. Still, It was a big shame to the chess story, I think. Things could have been alot more interesting than they were. Fide, with Fisher's help, ruined things for us. It's always interesting to see things de-mystified. (That's if you trust Kasparov fully). Also, It would be interesting to see such analysis from kasparov regarding chess machines, and how Deeper Blue compares to todays best programs. D.B. seems a mystery to many people, and all this forum CCC, CTF, didn't demystify it enough in my mind. S.Taylor
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