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Originally Posted by Rusty Miller
Sam: Why do you think the F-K Gothic Chess Match
was a "con"?
The signature from Karpov on the website looks a lot like the
autograph of his that I have. I got it when he was in Seattle now many
years ago for a candidates match. The Goodwill Games people had me and
several other chess people for a lunch with Karpov and his then wife.
The pictures from Iceland look real enough. Of course Fischer never
showed up to sign. Wonder how much Fischer got in advance to come to
the meeting in Iceland that he never came to. That action as I
understand is typical of Bobby over the years. It took a lot of
effort to get him to Iceland to play the 1972 match. The Gothic Chess
fellow probably did not have the time to wait around for Fischer.
Sam, thanks for posting the website giving more details than what has
appears on "the other forum".
Rusty Miller, Chelan WA
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I have no doubt that the signature of Karpov is real. Of course,
Karpov will play a match with anybody at anything for 14 million
dollars (as would you or me).
However, the whole thing was absurd, ridiculous.
The guy's plan was then to get Fischer to sign and then to go to
Donald Trump and ask him for the 14 million (as though Trump, who is
often bankrupt, would give 14 million for such a scheme).
In the middle of this was Rob Mitchell, who is undoubtedly the same
Rob Mitchell who I banned from my Yahoo group (thereby acquiring the
distinction of being the only person ever to be banned from my group).
Rob Mitchell wanted to be paid $35,000 in advance, claiming that he
already had both Fischer and Karpov on board, when it turned out that
Karpov had never heard of him and Fischer obviously had not either.
So, it was a bunch of people trying to con each other, none of whom
knew anything about chess or had any money.
Sam Sloan