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- From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
- Subject: A question for DMC
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:16:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <18767@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Worthless non-GM Ginsburg was referring to the first Kasparov-Karpov match,
- in which Kasparov deliberatedly played to draw when he was behind in order to
- exhaust his opponent. (At least, that's Kasparov's story. Fischer's view is
- the match was fixed anyway).
-
- You also state:
-
- "Reducing chess to math is to leave out 99% of the game".
-
- While I have been involved in discussions on the net as to whether Fischer
- played poorly in some games or deliberately employed risky plans in order to
- try to win otherwise balanced positions (the (in)famous King walk in Game 8
- is the best example), I find this remark somewhat astounding. It is doubly
- astounding considering that Fischer is one of the greatest seekers of "truth"
- on the chess board in history - he would never make a move which thought
- objectively inferior for psychological reasons, although he has made "risky"
- moves which he assessed as playable (rightly or wrongly) in order to try to
- win (taking the h Pawn in the first game of the 1972 match is a good
- example).
-
- So my question is simply whether you have played tournament chess and have a
- rating, or actually play chess at all. The view that there is little
- objective truth is chess is very unusual, and not knowing about the first K-K
- match has me wondering whether you play chess or are just discussing all this
- abstractly.
-
- If you don't wish to answer this question, that's fine, but please spare us a
- posting that this is avoiding some issue or another.
-