Author: stuart taylor
Date: 01:53:35 12/20/04
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On December 19, 2004 at 18:57:45, stuart taylor wrote: >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 Karpov (corr.) 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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