Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 03:48:28 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 06:06:56, KarinsDad wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 05:51:51, Mark Ryan wrote: > >[snip] > >> >>Hi: the games of Bronstein-versus-computers seem like great games from the >>standpoint of "human style versus computer style". Are these games available >>anywhere? >> >>(I will always think of Bronstein as a World Champion, which he likely would >>have been except for some skullduggery by the KGB; but that's off-topic.) >> >>Mark > >A divergent theory (given by Bronstein himself) was that the night before the >final game when he was with his girlfriend, he said to her "Tomorrow I will >probably be World Champion." and she replied "So?". Whether this psyched him out >or not, he felt later that it did. Could she have been put up to it by the KGB? >Guess we will never know. > >KarinsDad :) Hi: Well, at least he had a girlfriend :) (Incidentally, in case anyone is wondering about my KGB reference, Bronstein's mother, in the glasnost era, stated that the KGB had applied fierce psychological pressure against Bronstein, including making unsubtle threats about what might happen to his father. Not nice. Mark
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