On Mar 4, 6:28 pm, "Ian Burton" wrote:
"SAT W-7" wrote in message

Id like to see that match today Karpove vs Fischer .......They should
do it before one of them dies...
I bet Fischer plays on line chess computers so he is probably still
sharp i am sure Karpove is still sharp too ...But unfortunately that
game will never happen..

You may well be right about GM Fischer playing online
computers, for this is about the only way he could play
anonymously.

And I expect you are also right that such a match will
never take place. Indeed, GM Fischer should go down in
history as the man who avoided GM Karpov, and then
spent the next twenty years ducking GM Kasparov. ;D


In the first championship game Fischer vs Spasky , Spasky playing
white moved and hit his clock and Fischer was not even in the room and
after 6 minutes went off his clock he showed up and moved ..Trying to
intimidate Spasky from the start ......That is as far as i got in the
book before i put it back on the shelf.

If the book claims Fischer arrived late to intimidate Spassky (or any other
opponent for that matter), the book is not to be trusted. As a friend of
his back then, I know Fischer never attempted to intimidate anyone. He was
just being Fischer, far more timid than most writers would have you think.

It has been *many* years, but I think I recall reading
that he was late for this game on account of oversleeping.

BTW, the best way to intimidate an opponent would be
to not even bother showing up for the first game, later
circulating a story about having been too busy playing
video games. In game two, you show up and slam out
1.g4, followed quickly by 2.h4. Don't laugh: this opening
line has never been tested at the GM level, and could
for all we know turn out to be perfectly sound. ;D

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