On May 5, 1:06 am, wrote:

FIDE apparently didn't think so.
In June of 1975, they asked Fischer
to play Karpov _as World Champion_.

Losing the thread; we all agree that the winner of
the previous FIDE world championship cycle was
Bobby Fischer, and that if he had played, he
would have been given pretty nearly anything he
wanted, just as in 1972.


Fischer's refusal to play that
match -- as he and everyone else knew -- had the _effect_ of making
Karpov World Champion.

Indeed. So, what is your point?


There are plenty of reasons for criticizing
Evans, but harping on this semantic quibble is just making you look
silly. Well, sillier.

In my view, you look rather daft in that you
can't get past this freaky ratpacker bias thing.

It's 2008 AD, and yet some folks are akin to
frozen cadavers from the Cold War era; hence
the observation by Jurgen that their biases are
"antiquated"; the fact is, we have moved well
beyond the old biases and are now bashing
Russia's Mr. Putin, Venezuela's Mr. Chavez
and *China*. Life goes on, with or without the
frozen cadaver mindset.

Calling me "silly" is well, just plain silly; it's
name-calling, and most folks will conclude --
rightly or wrongly -- that you abandoned
reason in favor of /ad hominem/ because you
must have not had any other choice.

The organization known as FIDE controlled
the FIDE title-- whether the Evans ratpackers
like it or not. Nothing can change that-- not
even stubbornness and denial (regardless of
quantity). In much the same way, the USCF
controlled Chess Lies magazine; it may be
unpalatable, but it remains a fact of life.

As for criticizing Larry Evans, it appears
that others have beaten me to it; when the
old man "had a cow" over some pedantic
corrections to a couple of his gaffes, he
poured gasoline on the flames, spurring Mr.
Winter to do a write-up in which numerous
such errors were laid out, side by side. I can
not even hope to compete with such work as
that, since it would require too much time
and effort. Besides, I only have a few of all
the issues of Chess Lies magazine, so it
would be a piecemeal job.

Saying that Larry Evans' account is accurate,
is akin to saying that Sanny's program plays
according to the rules. You can't put lipstick
on a pig.


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