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Evans On Chess. October 1, 1993. Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
BELOW THE BOARD
After a point shaving scandal involving college basketball teams in the
1950s, the New York Daily News editorialized that the only sports we can
still trust are chess and marbles. Scratch chess.
In 1986 when world champion Gary Kasparov ousted a key aide for leaking
information to Anatoly Karpov during their third title match, his critics
promptly called him paranoid. Yet a cover story in OGONEK, Russia's
equivalent to TIME, contains KGB documents that reveal the charges had
substance.
"Chess in the net of Spies" is a lengthy expose by Vitaly Melik-Karamov that
accuses Karpov and his cohorts in the KGB of bribing Joseph Dorfman and
others in the enemy camp to betray Kasparov's secrets. When interviewed on
the BBC, the author named names and gave dates. Some salient points:
* In August 1984 before the first K-K match, Dorfman offered to
sell information to Karpov, the defending champion, whom the
Kremlin backed against his maverick challenger.
* From the 4th to the 11th game Dorfman met his contact daily at
noon in front of Moscow's Hotel Rossiya. He got paid a total of 1600
rubles. When Dorfman demanded more money, Karpov allegedly refused.
* An enormous scandal surrounded the termination of the match by
FIDE president Florencio Campomanes, who took orders from his
masters in Moscow to annul it after Karpov lost two games in a
row. While visiting Germany, Kasparov blasted these officials.
This behavior angered Gorbachev, but he took no action because
"it's not our place to appoint champions in sport."
* During the second K-K match in 1985, Dorfman was offered up to
$150,000 to continue spying on his pal. When he hesitated, Dorfman
was shadowed, blackmailed, and his family got death threats.
* Dorfman panicked and reported it to Gennady Rzaev, chief of
the Azerbaijan Ministry of Sport and leader of Kasparov's
delegation. A skeptical Rzaev told Dorfman to "cooperate" by
asking for a permit to live in Moscow, a feat considered
impossible to achieve "even for the omnipotent Karpov." A few
days later an official document dated September 30, 1985, signed
by A.I. Kostenko, head of the Moscow Committee of Sport,
requested that Dorfman be given an apartment.
* Rzaev couldn't believe it. He now understood they were dealing
with the highest levels of power. Intelligence was gathered and
phones tapped; two suspects were nabbed in a nationwide manhunt,
but Karpov's name was kept out of the scandal.
Dorfman now lives in France and coaches their chess team. Although Kasparov
partisans concede the new evidence falls short of damning Karpov "beyond a
reasonable doubt," many observers view the charges as serious and certainly
not -- whatever the truth -- a product of paranoia.
The story is so fantastic that I asked for Kasparov's reaction. "100% true!
I'm told a documentary film will be made about it," he said.
SOLUTION: 1 Bxf7! Rxf7 (or if 1...Nxh6 2. Qg6 Kh8 3. Qxh6 mate) 2 Qg6 Kf8 3
Qxg8 mate. Kasparov-Short, 7th match game, London 1993.