March 11, 2005 Linares, Spain. Kasparov retires from professional chess
forever.... Topalov crushes Kasparov in Final Round -- King and Pawn
Endgame... Linares International Last round to split $250,000 cash with
the world number one rated player...It's one of the most spectacular
and joyous moments in world chess history...Fireworks in Bulgaria! The
hard working class hero V. Topalov (Bulgaria) today shocked the chess
world by defeating G. Kasparov in one of the great come-from-behind
victories of all time..... Although tied with Mr. . Kasparov for a
quarter of a million dollars, Mr. Topolov, a wonderful gentleman (and
suit and tie promo dream!), is the real winner. He defeated Kasparov
(l.5-.5), and the entire chess world is agog with delight....... Mr.
Kasparov, certainly one of the most unpopular world chess champions of
all time, was caught disappearing during play four times last year
during Linares play - convicted worldwide, without trial, of using a
computer during play...his retirement brings worldwide applause and (as
Kasparov noted in his farewell retirement address) there is no sympathy
for Gary Kasparov in world chess promotion and pro chess players...The
level of poverty (both cash and organizational) delivered by his elite
private matches left the chess world in tragic shape and only he is to
blame...his statement " the greatest mistake I ever made was leaving
the official world chess championship (FIDE)" will truly stand as his
everlasting epitaph...Now the entire chess world must be rebuilt from
the ground up. Mr. Kasparov's million dollar rip-off of grandmaster A.
Shirov, who earned a match personally guaranteed by Mr. Kasparov after
Kramink was defeated in playoff without loss of a single game, stands
as absolutely the greatest chess swindle in professional world match
....Left $65,000 in debt while Mr. Kramnik was paid $200,000 for losing,
Mr. Shirov watched in agony as first Anand of India and Kramik were
offered his rightfully earned match...Mr. Kramnik then put Mr. Kasparov
away for all time with a crushing defeat in which Kasparov did not win
a single game while raking in millions of unearned dollars in private
deals concurrently...Mr. Kasparov's refusal to move a piece he touched,
in world rated pro Linares play, versus then teenager Judit Polgar
plunged her into tears...("It was the hand of god!" ) gave full warning
as to the disaster Mr. Kasparov would become..."Do not question
god..the rules do not apply to me"...An incredible chess author,a great
player with his fabulous, must read My Great Predexessors Volumes
selling at all time record chess levels in five languages.... Mr.
Kasparov has other fish to fry...thank goodness. He has to go. Final
Results : Linares 2005 1. Topalov/Kasparov $250,000 8/12 3. Anand
(India) 6.5 -13 players.
February 1, 2005 Corus International/Wijk aan Zee Holland- Mr. Peter
Leko (Hungary) has pocketed one half million dollars in the past 90
days. He won the worlds greatest chess tourney here and got four
hundred grand previously for his 14 game drawn match with V. Kramnik.
FINAL RESULTS 1. P. LEKO (8.5/13 ) 2. Anand(India) 8 3.Topolov 7.5
......Kramnik 7, 14 players
January 9, 2005. Arnold Denker 1914-2005. A 90 year old US chess legend
dies. Jude Acers Remembers: Eyewitness - International chess
grandmaster Arnold S. Denker, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Greyhound
bus station...final interview with the 1944 U.S. Chess champion (New
York- 15.5 points out of 17 possible!) who defeated R. Fine in their
classic individual encounter.... Victories later versus S. Reshevsky,,
I.A. Horowitz, I. Kashdan...scored versus 5 world chess champions
including Botvinnik and Fischer.....founder of the most successful
national youth chess event in american history -"the Denker" high
school annual shootout .... final 'word for word' quotes in July 16,
1977....
" Jude, the bulletin says you are giving 16 events in Florida..why not
40? .... I am for everything to ballyhoo chess..it changed my
life...chess is something to get excited about" Denker on the future of
chess/ crooks in the US Chess federation " " The welfare of US
chessplayers must be the main issue if chess is to advance. It has to
pay to be a great player. Because I had just retired as a successful
businessman people wanted me to inspect the US chess federation books.
There was then no question that the US chess federation was run by
crooks and theives..they simply stole with phony contracts, took money
for years of sevice and the like ..alll the time while leaving players
destitute...even Fischer was playing for peanuts while living in near
poverty in New York ... But remember you still need a strong US chess
federation to represent the players for the future..."

Final Denker's Remarks on A. Alekhine / World Chess Champion - the only
player ever to defeat Capablanca in match play.... "I Knew Alekhine
well and drank with him all over the world...natually there comes a
time when you are jolted out of your limited chess world by a player's
greatness. For me it was walking into the chess club while Alekhine was
playing five lower echelon masters simulltaneously BLINDFOLDED beating
them easily. When I saw that I knew he was world class plus.That did it
for me forever...Nobody studied chess like Alexander. I remember he
carried a notebook with him everywhere , writing analysis in it in
bars.He was particularly interested in how to win with a queen and
extra pawn versus the queen." ON ALEKHINE'S PRO NAZI "chess journalism"
" I was the the unfortunate witness, to verify that Alekhine's own
handwriting penned those imfamous articles. I knew both German and his
handwriting. He wrote them. I told Albert Horowitz to go with a flat
statement in Chess Review and also endorsed a world wide ban of
Alekhine.... Here I made a grave error. Alekhine had been my friend.
You do not desert a friend. I should have stuck with him as he was
dying in Lisbon and try to find the facts, the pressures of war on him.
Nowadays I agree with Larry Evans who wrote in Chess Life that you have
to be awfully careful about banning people in chess...people change,
have horrendous mental problems sometimes..war time duress. We are all
sinners and you can take that to the bank. Holier than thou does not
work!" "Can you imagine Jude?..just this. It is a bar in Berlin ,
Germany closing in the wee hours with just Alekhine and me left in the
thirties....tipping one glass after another around the bar chess
board...He is unable to even walk back to his hotel safely...So I
actually lifted him over my shoulder to get him up the stairs...the
whole world of chess on my shoulder- imagine!....Make no
mistake..Alekhine loved chess more than anyone ever...he was also
anxious to put on a good show, a good lecture and appearance all over
the globe. I even helped him with his tuxedo and corset before public
appearances. There was nothing like Alekhine ever. "

Topalov is one of the most exciting players today.