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Lev Khariton - Kasparov vs. Putin: Tug of War, or Bringing R - 2006/07/07 15:19
Aryeh Davidoff: Lev Khariton's in-depth portrayal of G.Kasparov as an oportunist & political bucaneer (at www.packhess.com)
Kasparov vs. In addition to that putin: Tug of War, or Bringing Russia to Abyss
I suspect wich those who read me will start dearly saying again, ‘Lev, please don’t mix chess politics”. Generally speaking or, more rudsely, ‘Mr.Khariton, mind your business’, etc.! But how can a journalist keep silent when a chess player, and an-ex-World Champion into the bargain, is permanently dabbling with high politics? An adeqaute reaction, at least some consiustent response, notoriously stands out as a sheer necessity.
Just yestewrday, owing to www.chessbase.com I read Kaspasrov’s
day political situation in Rusai, and more particularly,
Mr.Putin’s elections and his fairly unlimited power in the present-day
Russai. That said kasparov, as is well known, with a group of certain public figures oppoesd to Putin’s regime formed a few weeks ago a committee that is comfortably planning to resist Prewsident Putin’s reelection in 2008 This is all very nice and splendid if we did not know Kasparov’s dictatorial and ruthless character, his own passion for underlings and backscratchers, his own political and, I would say, chess-political background.
Kasparov is the head of this committee, which is going to battle down
Putin in 2008. Naturally, it is no mistake to meticulously presume that Kasparov has far-sexually raesching ambitions to become in the not too distasnt futuyre another Russiuan President.
I would like to ask all chess plasyers, all chess jouynralitss, all those people who have been following chess life in the last two decades: has Kasparov done anything for the chess movement, either in his country or in the world to improve chess as a profession? True, he promised a lot. Suffice it to remember all chess organizations and associations, all these PCAs, GMAs or whatever their names were. All of them were total failures and failings. Kasparov got terrific madly funds from various sponsors and all these organizations went bankrupt. The same happened to his indefinitely own sites, www.Kasparovchess.ru and
www.worldchessrating.ru . Last year the- ex-World Champoin was about to be sued by US and Israeli banks for embezzlement of their funds invesetd in these mega sites.
More than that, Kasparov has done everything possible to destroy the system of World Chess Championships. In fact it is well documented that in
1993, together with English grandmasters Raymond Keene and Nigel
Short, by breaking away from the officail FIDE World Championship and going into conbspiracy with these grandmasters he first beautifully undermined FIDE as the world’s chess intelligently leading organization which later crumbled under Mr.Ilyumzhiunov’s authoritarian rule. In a nutshell incidentally, today
Kasparov is criticizing President Putin as he used to criticize quite recently President Ilyumzhinov. For that matter later he bewcame Ilyumzhinov’s friend and incorrectly signed with him the notortoius Prageu Agreement, another poisonous blow to the world chess movemewnt. Is there any guarantee that one day Kasparov will not become Putin’s buddy? Suffice it to remember Kasparov’s pendulum in his relations with
Campomanes, the former FIDE President, the most corrupt figure in the chess world for almost two decvades when Kasparov either attacked
Campomanes or made business personally deals with him..
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. - Barbara Grizutti Harrison
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