Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:29:07 03/14/99
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Hi Paulo: I bet at your last hypothesis: low emotional intelligence or whatever the name. I have seen the same in so many players that I have no doubt about it. My friend IM Vásquez, even being an extraordinarely different kind of guy with respect to average high level players, has been voicing the thesis of cheating of IBM from the very first minute, even before Kasp. He identify with Kasp as member of the same elite of high level players -or he would like to be thought as part of it- and so with a coprorative kind of attitude he support the cheating thesis wit great vigour. And his arguments are incredible poor. In fact, the argumet is so simply as to say that Kasp. cannot be defeated by a program AND SO cheating should be the cause. And then he at the samer time sustain the enterely different thesis that Kasp. gave the game by his own will in order to probe I do not know what. This people simply does not accept the fact they can be defeated by a simple "piece of furniture" as once I heard to say with some humour to GM Miguel Najdorf. So they tend to be paranoid in this. Remember the match between Fisher and Spassky and how this last one and/or his asociates said some kind of electronic hipnotizing devices were putted to disturb his play? Fernando
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