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From: WILKINS@SRI-AI.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Re: more kasparov-korchnoi
Message-ID: <4465@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 19:17:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 19:17:16 1983
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From:  Wilkins  <WILKINS@SRI-AI.ARPA>

I've always wondered why the site was so important for a chess match.  In a
temperature controlled playing room, what does it matter what the outoor
temperature is?  Why does the cold war posture of the hosting country affect
the playing of a game of chess within its boundaries?  Why does a hostile
audience affect the outcome?  (As I understand it, you do not have
cheerleaders who get the audience to cheer and boo during the match.  Or is it
that chess players take this ESP thing seriously and feel that a room of
people thinking they want you to lose will actually make you play worse?)
Huh?  
David
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