"Linares__Lulls" wrote in message
news:TC51c.669505$X%5.461401@pd7tw2no...
I'll tell you.....I have never seen Leko blunder so badly and so
blatantly.
I think that Leko had good winning prospects that game, and certainly no
possibility of losing......in the absence of a blunder.

Come now. This was no blatant blunder. Leko didn't leave a queen en prise.
He was faulty in his defense. Kasparov, in his match with Kramnik, always
had what looked like winning prospects against Kramnik's Berlin Defense.
Prospects don't win games. Kramnik is willing to take on inferor positons
as long as they are not lost positions. He himself has written so in his
summary of the match with Kasparov.


Perhaps there is something to Fischer's claims about pre-arrangement. And
interesting thing to note......the odds on Kramnik to win that game were
11-1 on Betsson. Someone got a nice payday.

Nonsense.
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Ian Burton
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