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Subject: Re: Kasparov, Pictures of the Moscow assault

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 20:49:27 04/23/05

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On April 23, 2005 at 16:58:06, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On April 23, 2005 at 16:04:23, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2005 at 15:21:12, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>22.04.2005 A week ago Garry Kasparov was attacked in Moscow, by a young man
>>>posing as a chess fan who wanted his chess board signed. Now it turns out that
>>>the incident was captured, by two cameras from different angles. Apparently some
>>>people may have known it was coming. Here are the pictures and Kasparov's
>>>commentary.
>>>
>>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2344
>>
>>
>>The logic of this "apparently some people knew it was coming" is flawed. This
>>was (after Kasparov's own words) a meeting with young people and it would have
>>been surprising if nothing would have been recorded. I knew it from the first
>>second that Kasparov would be trying to get some honey out of the event. But his
>>mentioning of Putin is just hilarious nonsense. Kasparov never was and never
>>will be some expert politician. He's way too occupied with his own ego.
>
>Why do I get negative feed back by people who have no idea what they are talking
>about?
>
>You don't know what happened or the details or Kasparov himself!

Why do you even care that people do not have the same high opionion of Kasparov
the you do -- who cares?





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