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Date: 27 Sep 2007 12:49:12
From: Lonnie
Subject: Is Kasparov playing on ICC?
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This blurb below is taken from the 10/07 New Yorker about GK.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/01/071001fa_fact_remnick
"Klara asked a maid to make coffee. The espresso came bolshoi
trippio-enormous mugs of steaming caffeine. It became easier to see how
Kasparov was able to work heroic hours and then, well after midnight, settle
down at his computer to play "blitz"-five-minute-long games of chess. He
plays anonymously, but the cognoscenti know his style of attack. They still
feel his presence. Sinatra cannot sing anonymously."
Is GK playing on ICC?
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Date: 01 Oct 2007 11:51:18
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: Is Kasparov playing on ICC?
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On 30, 9:05 pm, help bot <nomorech...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> KPR wrote:
> One does not necessarily get worse at slow chess just
> because of playing inferiors at blitz.
When I play a lot of blitz then my
chess gets weaker, both standard and blitz.
I need to play slow chess seriously in order
to also play blitz at my best.
Regards,
Wlod
PS. "my best" is nothing anyway :-)
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Date: 30 Sep 2007 21:05:14
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Is Kasparov playing on ICC?
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KPR wrote:
> > Is GK playing on ICC?
>
> He has been playing against Fischer online ever since 1999, mostly on ICC
> (ask Nigel Short). That's why he lost to Kramnik in 2000.
LOL!
One does not necessarily get worse at slow chess just
because of playing inferiors at blitz. Besides, GM Kasparov's
Mother, Klara, took over whenever he got an important phone
call during play, and she's just a meager 2500. She also
handled the mop-ups so that GK could take a breather; and
of course it was she who knew all the answers to Nigel Short's
silly questions concerning Bobby Fischer (although GK played
those games where he had Black, to give her a rest).
-- help bot
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Date: 01 Oct 2007 04:29:34
From: KPR
Subject: Re: Is Kasparov playing on ICC?
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> Is GK playing on ICC?
He has been playing against Fischer online ever since 1999, mostly on ICC
(ask Nigel Short). That's why he lost to Kramnik in 2000.
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