Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 12:49:04 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 14:17:04, Pallav Nawani wrote: >On April 26, 2005 at 11:10:03, Steven Edwards wrote: >>On April 26, 2005 at 10:33:01, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >>>For a start, they were a huge promotion for the game. Nothing made chess more >>>popular than the match I won against Deep Blue in 1996 and the match I lost in >>>1997. The official Web site got 72 million hits during the six games of the >>>second match in New York, which was a higher daily rate than the Atlanta Olympic >>>Games Web site got in 1996. >> >>Wrong. The Fischer era starting around 1970 had a far, far deeper impact on >>chess popularity. See the USCF annual membership numbers for proof. >> > >Wrong. Fisher era had deep impact on chess popularity in US. FYI, US != World. I was continuing in the same context. Do you think that Kasparov was speaking about the whole world on being the receiving end of this "big promotion"? That live web site was in English. Still, I'll say that Fischer (at the time) still had a bigger impact on world wide chess interest than both Deep Blue matches. I remember; I had been playing chess five years before the Spassky/Fischer match.
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