"tomic" wrote in message ...
Interview with Susan Polgar

Interesting stuff! How did you get her to agree to this interview?
Did you have to pay her money?

Thanks, Louis, yes, you are right, that's indeed the way the interview with
Susan Polgar should be read. Next time I'll be more careful and take better
attention.

By the way I'm surprised by Susan's very cautious answer, "It may or may not
be", on Fischer's conspiracy theory. Fischer is convinced all of the matches
between the top players are arranged. He believes they construct superior
games with the help of computers ("it's ten thousand times more easier
now!") and then act as if they really play these games. This whole charade
is performed to make him look weak and not the rightful owner of the World
Chess Champion title.

I'd expect Susan to take more clearly distance from such nonsense. Peter van
der Hoog



"Louis Blair" wrote in message
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Goran Tomic wrote (2003-12-25 03:27:26 PST):
Interview with Susan Polgar

Dear Susan, I would like to make a short interview
...
Goran Tomic: ... What's your opinion about Bobby Fischer?
Why didn't Fischer stay in Budapest? Bobby Fischer said
that some of the top WCC matches in man competition were
prearranged move by move. What do you think about it?

Susan Polgar: Bobby is one of the greatest chess players
of all time. He is ranked up there with Kasparov and
Capablanca. I am not sure why he left Budapest. It may
or may not be. I do not have any first hand knowledge of
that. Unless someone can offer concrete evidence, I will
leave it as a rumor.


Peter van der Hoog wrote (2003-12-27 03:30:19 PST):

What do think of one of Susan Polgar's answers: "Unless
someone can offer concrete evidence, I will leave it as
a rumor." How much evidence does she need? On Fischer's
own website he writes: "In January 2000 I left Budapest
for Japan where I have spent most of my time for the
past 3 years". The fact that Fischer left Budapest isn't
controversial at all and I'm sure the chess community in
Budapest is aware Fischer left the country. Is she
playing dumb?

_
I think that what we have here is a simple confusion that
resulted from Susan Polgar responding to a paragraph with
more than one question. Perhaps what was intended was
something like this:

Goran Tomic: What's your opinion about Bobby Fischer?

Susan Polgar: Bobby is one of the greatest chess players
of all time. He is ranked up there with Kasparov and
Capablanca.

Goran Tomic: Why didn't Fischer stay in Budapest?

Susan Polgar: I am not sure why he left Budapest.

Goran Tomic: Bobby Fischer said that some of the top WCC
matches in man competition were prearranged move by move.
What do you think about it?

Susan Polgar: It may or may not be. I do not have any
first hand knowledge of that. Unless someone can offer
concrete evidence, I will leave it as a rumor.

Thanks, Louis, yes, you are right, that's indeed the way the interview with
Susan Polgar should be read. Next time I'll be more careful and take better
attention.

By the way I'm surprised by Susan's very cautious answer, "It may or may not
be", on Fischer's conspiracy theory. Fischer is convinced all of the matches
between the top players are arranged. He believes they construct superior
games with the help of computers ("it's ten thousand times more easier
now!") and then act as if they really play these games. This whole charade
is performed to make him look weak and not the rightful owner of the World
Chess Champion title.

Fischer may be right about "chess theater" occuring in GM play, but all he'd
have to do is enter the US Championship and win his way up to the title, if he
were truly better.

This practice wouldn't "stop" him at all.

"Crossville Chess" wrote in message
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"tomic" wrote in message
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Interview with Susan Polgar

Interesting stuff! How did you get her to agree to this interview?
Did you have to pay her money?

Ah Charlie, what are you implying?

StanB

"Todd E. Flambers" wrote in message
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Very interesting interview, Tomic. Where was it published?

On www.pakchess.com where Goran has his column. By the way, did you
recognize the fragment from yer article "Fischer vs Women"?

Did you note Paul's interview?

StanB

Peter van der Hoog wrote:
By the way I'm surprised by Susan's very cautious answer, "It may or may
not be", on Fischer's conspiracy theory. [...] I'd expect Susan to take
more clearly distance from such nonsense.

If she's a friend of Fischer's, she's not going to say in public that he's
a nutcase.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Fluorescent Evil Priest (TM):
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ it's like a man of the cloth but
it's genuinely evil and it'll hurt
your eyes!

It's exactly this kind of amoral spinelessness that keeps anyone from taking
organized chess seriously. That, and the ever-increasing suspicion that many
of the better players are mentally unbalanced. Then we take a look at FIDE,
and we see everything for what it is: a loony bin.



"David Richerby" wrote in message
...
Peter van der Hoog wrote:
By the way I'm surprised by Susan's very cautious answer, "It may or may
not be", on Fischer's conspiracy theory. [...] I'd expect Susan to take
more clearly distance from such nonsense.

If she's a friend of Fischer's, she's not going to say in public that he's
a nutcase.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Fluorescent Evil Priest (TM):
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ it's like a man of the cloth
but
it's genuinely evil and it'll
hurt
your eyes!

oh yeah?
awsome.
i have been looking forward to this interview for a really long time!