Kasparov refuses to continue Simul game in Chicago!

[sheba]

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/readTopic.asp?PostingId=1366118

"Kasparov rather nervously asked me if I had a rating. I replied 2084 & he, not looking very happy, asked why I didnt write it down in front of the board next to my name. I replied which no 1 noisily asked me too and that the Belzberg people knew my rating and only today OK my slowly playing since I am a client. He then vaguely stated that if he had known I was rated that highly he would have played differently rather than getting into a very theoretical line. Being aware of the 2000 cutoff I again fiercely appologized for the misunderstanding and we quickly realized that the
Belzberg staff had erred in not telling people to write down their ratings (these were different people than from the NYC event). I simply stated "I'm sorry for the confusion, I won't play " and started to get up and Garry, reiterating that he'd have played differently vs a rated expert, started rudely resetting the pieces to the startin posiution and said we can retsart. unnaturally being rather inquisitively shokced by this and what was over a minute of commotion and confusion I knew the gentlemanly hardly thing for me to do was to step away and let someone else under 2000 play.".

[orco]

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Looks like Jason Repa has switched his synonym yet *again*.

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Why does this child never learn?.

[toskala]

"gentlemanly"? ROFL you sir are no gentleman! You are a COWARD & a PHONEY!
You, a mere garden-variety expert, have an oportunity to play a second game with 1 of the greatest chess minds ever & you act with such pomposity as to decline? Jackassses like you make me sick to my stomach! You try to play the roll of every one's "moral superiour" but in reality you're just a little chicken shit hypocrite. Do us all a favour & find a hole in the ground to bury your head in!!.

[Twiggy:D]

I think the whole situation was handled rather professionally. For his trouble mr Kazaross was given some one on one time with Kasparov. Your subject line while accurate doesn't relay the whole event..