"Jerzy" wrote in message
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"Louis Blair" wrote in message
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The real truth is that the Soviet Chess Federation was doing
everything to break off the match between Fischer and Karpov,
and finally the Soviets succeeded. In 1975 Kasparov was only
12 years old and may be he was too young to understand what
was happening.

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According to the Oxford Companion, Karpov was born in 1951.



Lou, Kasparov was born in 1963. I understand it`s easy to mistake Kasparov
with Karpov ))

Regards,

Jerzy


Dear Jerzy,
I don't wonder that Mr. Blair missed the chess. It seems that he writes
dozens (hundreds?) mails daily, so he become a bit superficial. I think
that's better to write one advisedly mail than dozens nonsense mails. I
don't read any of his mails, because I think that he writes by inertia and
elongates every thread because he can't stop himself, like a gambler who
loses.
It seems that Mr. Blair is not alone in his superficial reading, so I have
to recall one more time (thread-Popularity contest and bad qualities) that
Mr. Euwe was FIDE President in 1975, and what has he done:
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He was very
respected and had big influence on all delegates on general assembly FIDE
in Nice (June 30. 1974) and on extra FIDE conference (March 20. 1975).
Delegates accepted the first Fischer's claim to play without limit of the
game numbers (37:33). But, the second Fischer's claim was refused. That was
Fischer's claim that he detain the title if the result in match would be
undecided, 9:9. That claim was refused with 35:32 and 3 votes were retired.
You know that Fischer's demand was used by other WCC (e.g. Botvinnik,
Lasker). So, it was fair to accomplish Fischer's claim. But, President FIDE,
Maks Euwe didn't do anything. He proclaimed Karpov World Chess Champion,
though he has not won WCC Bobby Fischer in the match. On April 3rd 1975, at
11 o'clock a.m he declared that Bobby was not more World Chess Champion.

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So, chess establishment ruled in 1975 removed Fischer from the chess throne.
It's obviously that Fischer was not afraid of Karpov. By the way, you can
see Chessmetric evaluation of the strength Karpov and Fischer in 1975. The
difference was too big ...

Regards,
Goran Tomic