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Lev Khariton's comments on Kasparov's interview to "Fin - 2007/01/13 10:14
On November 7th London's "Financial Times" published an interview with
Garry Kasparov. Here are some fragments of this interview and Lev
Khariton's comments.
Garry Kasparov sits at a table in Somerset House in London holding
responds in excellent English, marred only by a Russian tendency to misuse articles. But was Gorbachev genuine?
Many people accuse me of mixing chess with politics. Some people advise me to post my political comments on other sites related to politics. But if Kasparov, the great chess player, speaks on politics incessantly, we have to be here, on those chess sites where he dwells on politics!
"A genuine communist", - Kasparov says about Gorbatchev. Sounds very derogatory! But owing to Gorbatchev's liberalisation, the people in
Russia and ex-Soviet republics knew more about the past, the country became more open, the people could express themselves and could become more open politically, Hundreds of thousands were allowed to emigrate or freely travel abroad.."
Kasparov has been firing off opinions on many topics: Vladimir Putin (bad), Israel (treated unfairly by the BBC), General Pinochet ("an angel" compared with the leaders of Syria, Libya or North Korea).
Kasparov is using the same clichés. I may not like Putin much, but no doubt he is at the moment the leader Russia needs. May be, some time will pass and Putin will be replaced by someone, so to say, more democratic or less constrained. Kasparov's characterisation of Putin is too one-sided. Why is Israel treated badly by BBC? And what would be the nice treatment? I have noticed that in the evaluation of the
Israeli-Palestinian confrontation Kasparov has been stubbornly taking the anti-Iraqi stand, something that has brought about today's deadlock of US strategy in Iraq. Kasparov did not want to understand the danger of US-led invasion in Iraq last year. I wrote several articles on that issue. He does not want to admit his political myopia today! Hence, the words about the BBC bias against Israel. And certainly, Pinochet is one of the most cruel despots and political criminals of the 20th century. His name can be most appropriately equated with the names of Stalin,Hitler, Mao etc.
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But there is one point I absolutely agree with Kasparov. Just read this:" My political views could be damned wrong. Because my views are quite strong views. It's reflection of my chess style. With the strong views and very little flexibility, you don't make a good politician.
Except maybe in some crucial moments." Obviously this crucial has not come yet!
Does he identify with ageing champions in other sports, like Andre
Agassi in tennis? "My record has no comparison, because I'm number one for 18 years in rating and also, in chess, you have to come up with new concept."
Kasparov is as always terribly vain. He wants to be number one in everything, not only in chess. And can he formulate more exactly what his new concept in chess is. May be blundering center pawns to Fritz?
."Today chess presents one of the greatest challenges because of computers... every club player who has enough time to work with his computer could come up with the final solution of a position! In tennis, Agassi is still Agassi, and you can't beat him even if you know all the movements. In chess, eventually Garry Kasparov could face a defeat if he is sitting against a weak player who is assisted by a computer!"
By speaking so much about computers Kasparov humiliates his own chess power as well as that of other chess players. In the long run, when two strong chess players met at the board, it is not the computer equipment that counts, but the chess prowess of a grandmaster!
Actually, by such computer propaganda Kasparov degrades the image of chess and strong chess players before those who love chess as well as those who like to know about chess or teach their kids to play chess.
Who will want his son to learn chess and to play chess if the world's best chess player loses to silicon monsters? "Oh chess, it's just a waste of time, - such a parent would say advising his son to give up chess.
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