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Subject: Re: New rigged world title rules
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 03:44:27 EDT
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As Fischer pointed out, the Soviets both in theory and
practice seek to extract maximum political advantage
from chess, in part to "demonstrate" the superiority
of Soviet culture. Nothing is too immoral for them in
pursuing their goals, including at the very least
collusion between Soviet players against non-Soviet
players (agreeing to short draws for example in order
to save their strength for non-Soviet opponents),
psychological warfare, etc. Please don't be naive about
this. They have destroyed Fischer's career (he is arguably
the greatest chess genius ever and his withdrawal from
chess is a cultural loss comparable to Morphy's withdrawal).
Korchnoi's son was imprisoned, the current Soviet champion
was not allowed to participate in the interzonals for
political reasons, many top Soviet players have defected
to escape Soviet control, I could go on indefinitely.
The new rules are DEFINITELY rigged to favor Soviet
retention of the world title.