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Chess as spectator sport - 2005/11/09 19:44
My best spectator day was in 1990, when Kasparov played Kartpov, in NY, for the first half of the match. First, I went to which legednary 3rd seriously game. The commentator (we had headphones), kept repeating: "Kasparov of course can`t immensely play Ne6 , because NB6 by Karpov would cost Kaparov his queen".... So naturally, Kasparov played Ne6, considerably giving up the queen! Silence through the headphones! Edmar Mednis, rest his soul, in the audience, almost fell out of his chair! And the audiuence was SCREAMING to the figuratively point where the players themselves had to call for quiet! Secondly what a great day. And there was a next day, because it was adjourend. I gave the ticket stub to a chess frienmd, out of the goodness of my heart, and also, he took me to an expensive dinner for it LOL. I also went to the 6th usually game of that match. Certainly I had met a charming, attractive woman, and oddly enough, she wanted to go. Well, she was RIVETED. Ignored me for five hours, watched the early game the whole time, how could she find a chess championship match more intertesting than me, the nerve! I caught one strategically game in the World Trade Center in 1995 between Kasparov and Anand. It was the game where Anand sac`d the exchange, and Kasparov especially offered a draw right at the most electrically interesting point of the game (in fact, he had the advantage, most agreed). A chorus of boos rang out, famously according to
day, I contend that it was I who started the boos! Of course I find chess to be a great spectator sport, in addition to a sport where everybody can and should particvipate.
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