On Apr 28, 1:25 pm, "David Kane" wrote:

Raymond Keene, an anti-Karpov writer


...a RABIDLY anti-Karpov writer...


characterized the 1978 match as "that rare phenomenon
- a World Championship with both players in peak form"


I take the opinions of hacks like Raymond Keene with
a pound of sea salt, so in this case, I did a little digging
to see if the (purely objective) numbers matched up. It
turns out that he was right: both players performed at a
very high level. If you remove the information about which
rated event was which, one could not possibly conclude
that VK's results suffered from alleged kidnappings,
beatings, or even from yogurt-favoritism or hypnosis. In
reality, the match with Anatoly Karpov in 1978 was one
of the better performances of VK's entire chess career.

I think it may have been the dark sunglasses. If your
opponent cannot see what part of the board you are
looking at, then they will have no idea what stupid plans
you may cook up or even on which side of the board you
plan to "attack". They worked for Douglas MacArthur,
and they worked for Victor Kortchnoi-- maybe they can
even work for me?


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