On Apr 29, 8:31 pm, " wrote:

The rules of the game are clear, concise, and consistent. If you touch
a piece, you must move it. If your hand quits the piece, the move
stands. If your hand is still on it, then you can change your mind and
move it elsewhere. But move it you must.


While I don't agree with Mr. Evans regarding the "concise"
part, he at least seems to be familiar with the basic rules of
chess.


Since the rules specify that a protest must be lodged during play,


Nonsense. The proper thing to do is recognize that
Mr. Kasparov is a low-down good-for-nothing cheater,
and then treat him accordingly.


"Kasparov did not take his hand off the knight, so he had a perfect
right to change his move," said the chief arbiter.


Unbiased sources told a very different story. One
had it that the arbiter claimed he could not "see"
the infraction, because he was standing behind Mr.
Kasparov (a GK "backer"?).


"My conscience is clear. I have the feeling my hand was
still on it," added Kasparov.


Okay, make that dirty, low-down, good-for-nothing,
*lying* cheater.


Yet we all know the naked eye can be fooled.


Ah, I knew there would be a "twist" in the plot. As
with the Fox spin-zone, if you remove the spin, you
are left with nothing but dead air.


A camera crew was filming
the game and a replay revealed that Kasparov removed his hand for
exactly ¼ of a second! Deliberate foul or did he try to change his
grip in order to reverse direction? Who can say for sure?


The subject is changed to this or that, deftly avoiding
the actual cheating. It makes no difference if anyone
can guess GK's motive, nor the length of time it took
to enact the cheating, nor what color the sky may be
when viewed from outer space. A typical Larry Evans
ploy is to ignore the facts, and change the subject to
something else; in fact, I'm a bit disappointed that he
failed to attack Judit Polgar's character or religion. The
old man seems to be slipping.


His enemies promptly called it cheating.


Ah, now THAT'S more like it! Ad hominize the folks
who want the rules to be enforced, even upon faves
like GK. The problem, you understand, is not that GK
is a cheater-- no sir! It's that he has "enemies" who
stalk him, just waiting for a chance to point out when
some errant camera may try and make it appear that
he did something wrong-- which he never ever could.

Apparently, to the Evans ratpack, Gary Kasparov is
a sacred cow-- almost like Bobby Fischer. He can
do no wrong, and if Judit Pogar gets run over, well,
she ought not to have gotten in his way... .


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