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CAN WE HELP KASPAROV?

When Kasparov spoke out after Campo's termination
of KKI in February 1985, he chose Der Spiegel as his
vehicle. There were some great photos of him to go
with the many zingers in his text.

I chose to reprint the Spiegel piece in Chess
Life, and it was a great hit. We had a large
letter-to-the-editor total re the article. Those who
loved Kasprov enthused; those who were pro-Karpov
and/or pro-Soviet fulminated.

The way for Chess Life to help Kasparov as well
as fulfill its function to promote chess in the U.S.
is simply to cover his doings. Most chessplayers,
will find such coverage of great interest. It can be
friendly but not editorializing-friendly. That's the proper
strategy, serving a high purpose and the basic CL mission.

The problem that Kasparov faces as a politician
is that he is not a very good one. Accepting an
honorary citizenship of the United States was stupid,
stupid, stupid. It tells us that even when speaking
out earlier, he was not really committed. Otherwise,
he would never have cozied so close. Too, as a Jew,
he cannot win a vote dominated by Russian voters.

Putin or his stand-in will win the presidential
election because their forces are more popular. The
elections will be free though not fair. The opposition
will get out the message, but it will not resonate.

Let's keep in mind that back in 1989, I think it
was, Boris Yeltsin won 89(!) percent of the vote in
the run for Moscow mayor against Gorbachev's
candidate. The Party controlled the press, and the
opposition had no voice of any kind on TV, radio or
in the newspapers. Instead, many people volunteered
to handout crude samizdat literature.

Compared to the anti-communist opposition of
1989, Kasparov and the current opposition have
enormous financial resources at their command, and
they receive coverage. They have organized parties
and distribute professionally printed literature.

Independent political polling in Russia is
legal, and these polls show Putin a runaway favorite
among the narod. Are the polls accurate? The problem
with political polling is that it is accurate enough
so that the few mistakes are noteworthy for years to
come. Yeah, I think the numbers are about right.

Still, the good news is that there is no
necessary conflict between the USCF doing the right
thing by helping out Kasparov and serving its mission
purpose of promoting chess in the U.S. That's because
most chess people will want to read hardhitting stuff
about Garry and his doings -- no matter what the
specific field of his endeavour may be. It was the
same with Bobby. Readers could never get enough of
him, and were it not for a kind of censorship against
Bobby now being exercised by CL to the detriment of
magazine sales and retention, they would still enjoy
reading about him.

Yours, Larry Parr




Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod) wrote:
On Dec 7, 7:42 pm, "
wrote:

In this case, Kasparov very much wants the attention of the West;

The main principle is to not get trapped into playing
the game by the rules imposed by oppressors.

It looks like the Truong issue is finally coming to a head,

If it is true that Truong was impersonating Sam Sloan,
then I hope that Truong will spend some time behind
the bars.

Best regards,

Wlod

On Dec 8, 3:11 am, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"
wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:57 am, zdrakec wrote:

I certainly agree with your points about Kasparov. However, I must
respectfully disagree about the USCF having any involvement. The
function of the USCF is to promote chess in the United States; it has
(in my humble opinion) no business taking any sort of political stand
on non-chess issues.

Regards,
zdrakec

Wow, you sound like true Soviet propaganda.
They used this trick a lot. And as awful as it sounds,
it worked. It was so ugly.

Wlod

Ah, what are you talking about?
Cordially,
zdrakec