Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 09:07:02 10/02/05
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On October 02, 2005 at 11:28:13, Terry McCracken wrote: >On October 02, 2005 at 10:46:25, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On October 02, 2005 at 10:35:48, Amused To Death wrote: >> >>>Is there A web site that covers the game where Gary touched the pawn >> >>It was not a pawn , it was a knight. >> >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A38229-2000Jul3¬Found=true >> >>halfway down the story >> >>"In 1994 in Linares, Spain, Kasparov played a knight move against Judit Polgar >>and removed his fingers from that piece. But after he saw that he might lose >>material, he took the knight back and made a different move. His act was caught >>on camera by a Spanish television crew, but Polgar was so shocked that she >>froze, uncapable to protest and soon lost the game. " >> >>do google search on "polgar+kasparov+knight+Linares+touched" >> >>Michael > >The story is different than when I first heard it. What I had read years ago, is >Kasparov touched the square with his Knight, for all of a quarter second then >moved it to the correct square. Polgar could have held him to the touch square >rule, but this is the first time I've heard that Kasparov removed his fingers >from the piece. > >At this point, I'd rather see the footage, then read a report. > >Terry JFYI, there isn´t a "touch square rule" in chess. Touching a square is allowed. Kasparov has released the piece. Michael
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