On Dec 5, 7:51 am, "Chess One" wrote:

A picture of GK appeared in Investors Business Daily,
December 4, 2007 as well. It is very strange to see him
grumble about honor and whatnot, as he never even
apologized for his shameless cheating against Ms.
Polgar -- as caught on videotape.

What a nonsense - its my understanding that JP accepts his explanation to
her.

You will no doubt understand if "your understanding"
is not taken seriously here, due to your abysmal
record.

This event was just one in a long line of dishonest
actions by GK; luck would have it that it is also the
one caught right on videotape. Now, die hard GK
apologists can try to brush off the act as some fluke
wardrobe malfunction, but reporters caught the scum
in a baldfaced lie, whereupon GK changed his story.

"I never released the Knight -- you are mistaken."

"Mr. Kasparov, here is a videotape showing you in
fact released the Knight; would you like to see
yourself cheat a girl, frame by frame?"

"Um, er, what I meant to say was that I, um, did
not realize that my hand (the wicked dog!) had
released the Knight. So you see, it was the hand,
not I."

"Okay, the videotape supports that excuse; the
wicked hand indeed is the only one which released
the Knight; the arm and body mainly acted as
passive observers, and the mind of Gary Kasparov
is above reproach?!?"


Putin-bashing and
Chavez-bashing are all the rage in the media these
days, along with China-bashing, but if there is to be
any hint of believability in such articles, they will need
to find a more credible proponent of "democracy" than
Gary Kasparov.

Garry Kasparov has been risking rather more than his opinion on usenet, some
say risking his life. Certainly the US government are concerned about
coercion of votes, threats issued, and a goverment controlled media auditing
the news.

The question is, in what way is taking such risks
beneficial to "democracy" in Russia? As far as I
have seen, the result was a loss. It reminds me
of the split with FIDE over money and power; in
fact, GK specifically mentioned control over
Russia's money in his rant, just as Sam Sloan
does when complaining about the USCF. One
has to wonder, what is the /real motive/ here?

In the past, GK has expounded upon some
democratic ideals in chess, but when the voters
preferred Jan Timman, he showed his true colors
via a cut-and-run, leaving the "democrats" to
twist in the wind. Is that the sort of man you
wish to lead Russia, instead of Mr. Putin?


Kasparov may not be the best proponent of democracy in Russia

You got that right.


but he /is/ credible

No, he's not. But like Sam Sloan, he does get
a lot of attention out of this.


and in consideration of who else represents the issue, he is the
leader of something now very important to something in the modern world -
not just in Russia, but in the USA too - at least the US President seems to
think so.

One day, Mr. Innes, you will perhaps learn to
/think for yourself/, and not rely upon the likes of
GB or LP to do it for you. A good start would be
to reevaluate positions which are not supported
by the facts. Here's a fact you might want to
consider, once you make the decision to start
/thinking for yourself/: Yuri Averbakh was used
by LE in support of one of his rants, but when
the book finally appeared, it turned out that LE
was just blowing hot air: YA stated that Vassily
Smyslov was the Kremlin's favorite, not GM
Botvinnik! LOL As a chess player of nearly-
an-IM strength, you surely can do simple
pattern recognition? Try this on for size: in
another article by LE, the dishonest kook used
TK in support of his position, but it turned out
that TK had reversed himself, and no longer
supported LE. Now, this is not overly complex:
what is the pattern here? That's right, bucko:
the simple pattern is one of deception and lies
emanating from Larry Evans. Food for thought.


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