On May 1, 10:03 pm, " wrote:

Snip latest rant.


I think Mr. Parr is slipping. Some time back, his
prattle could at least be expected to have good
spelling and an anecdote here and there about
"fave" Josef Stalin. Nowadays, he commits nearly
as many spelling errors as Rob Mitchell or Phil
nearly-IMnes. It's quite a drop in standards, even
by his own, ultra-low standards. This sort of thing
needs to be nipped in the bud, before it gets out
of hand.

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Now here is what I find a bit puzzling: notorious
hack Raymond Keene was quoted here as writing
that both Anatoly Karpov and Victor Kortchnoi
were in "peak form" during their championship
match. I did a little research to see if any purely
objective data backed that observation up, and it
did: both players had an above-normal result, just
looking at the numbers (at chessmetrics.com).

So, if that is true, then GM Kortchnoi somehow
managed to perform *well* in spite of what the evil
Soviets did to his son. And GM Karpov managed
to perform well enough, in spite of supposed
death threats from the Ananda Marga, Helter-
Skelter types. In any case, it is notable that a
hack like Ray Keene -- who can always be count-
ed on to attack Mr. Karpov, would in this case
make such an assessment-- if indeed that was his
overall assessment of the match.


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