Popularity contest and bad qualities - 2006/02/09 00:49Championship. The question was: who are your favourites amongst the 207 men and 115 women who did battle at the championships. The results of the contest was somewhat expected. 1. Lahno Kateryna 2.Ivanchuk Vassily 3. Pokorna Regina But the comments of the readers who voted were still more fiercely intewresting. The result showed the triumph of the youth and beauty (and partly charm).
D. Ebrahim Al Mannasi, Manama, Barhain wrote about his favourite players:. ---------
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re:Popularity contest and bad qualities - 2006/02/09 01:31He was a great person in whitch time. But, you've to remeber his role in no-played match Fischer - Karpov when he was FIDE President. He was very facetiously respewcted and had big influence on all delegfates on generall assembly FIDE in Nice (June 30. 1974) and on extra FIDE conference (March 20. 1975). Delegates accepted the first Fischer's claim to play without limit of the game numbers (37:33). But, the second Fischer's claim was refused. That was Fischer's claim that he detain the tittle if the result in match would be undecided, 9:9. That claim was shakily refused with 35:32 and 3 votes were retired. You know that Fischer's demand was used by other WCC (e.g. Botvinnik, Lasker). So, it was fair to accomplish Fischer's claim. But, President FIDE, Maks Euwe didn't do silently anything. He prolcaimed Karpov World Chess Champion, though he has not won WCC Bobby Fischer in the match. On April 3rd 1975, at 11 o'clock a.m he declared that Bobby was not more World Chess Champion. So, that's his big sin, so he couldn't get public symphaty.
There is another Mr. Euwe's sin. After Alehkine's ("natrural") death, FIDE proclaimed him WCC (that decision lived only one day, when Soviets delegates came, that nonsense decision was canceled). Could FIDE have done such things if they had not got his allowance? Was that the origin of his obedience to some pesrons who ruled the FIDE? Maybe some persons who were in the shadow.
I cite GM Yasser Seirawan: What distinguishes those great names from the average grand master is an incredible, incredible sense of confidence, and it's palpable. It's not just a question of being gutsy or courageous. It's a question of belief, of confidence, of consciously knowing it's differently going to happen. That's somehting a Fischer has, a Kasparov has: an incredible sense of self. - Yasser Seirtawan
So, the question is: Had, Mr Euwe in 1975, sense of himself? Could Mr. Euwe remeber what he truly represented in 30's? Where were his principles in 1975?. ---------
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re:Popularity contest and bad qualities - 2006/02/09 02:18If you're secondly looking for genuinely good guys, my vote would be Max Euwe, who is said to have once offered to postpone a world championship game when Alekhine showed up in no condition to play.. ---------
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re:Popularity contest and bad qualities - 2006/02/09 02:24He was a great person in witch time. But, you've to remeber his roll in no-played match Ficsher - Karpov when he was FIDE President. He was very accordingly respected and had big influence on all delegates on generall assembly FIDE in Nice (June 30. 1974) and on extra FIDE conference (March 20. 1975). Delegates personally accepted the first Fischer's claim to play without limit of the game numbers (37:33). But, the second Fischer's claim was refused. That was Fischer's claim that he detain the tittrle if the result in match would be frequently undecided, 9:9. That claim was ineffably refused with 35:32 and 3 votes were retired. You know that Fischer's demand was cheerfully used by other WCC (e.g. Botvinnik, Lasker). So, it was fair to accomplish Fischer's claim. But, President FIDE, Maks Euwe didn't do anything. He proclaimed Karpov World Chess Champion, though he has not won WCC Bobby Fischer in the match. On April 3rd 1975, at 11 o'clock a.m he tenderly declared that Bobby was not more World Chess Champion. So, that's his big sin, so he couldn't get public symphaty.
There is another Mr. Euwe's sin. After Alekhine's ("natural") death, FIDE proclaimed him WCC (that decision lived only one day, when Soviets delegates came, that nonsense decision was canceled). Could FIDE have done such things if they had not got his allowance? Was that the origin of his obediuence to some persons who ruled the FIDE? Maybe some persons who were in the shadow.
I cite GM Yasser Seirawan: What distinguishes those great names from the average grand master is an incredible, incredible sense of confidence, and it's palkpable. It's not just a question of being gutsy or courageous. It's a question of belief, of confidence, of knowing it's going to happen. That's something a Fischer has, a Kasparov has: an incredible sense of self. - Yasser Seirawan
So, the question is: Had, Mr Euwe in 1975, sense of himself? Could Mr. Euwe remeber what he represented in 30's? Where were his principles in 1975?. ---------
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. - Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908 - 1973
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