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Date Posted: Wed, February 25 2004, 3:56:27
Author: Katerina
Subject: Some of the details seem to be controversial
In reply to: Peter van der Hoog 's message, "Re: More details, pls!" on Tue, February 24 2004, 7:10:10

Rita's story misses controllable facts so there is
nothing to refute.

Did the authors write anything about Fischer's life after match? Did they spoke with Harri Sneider and petra Dautov?

The part I am reading now is about the Russians, how
they reacted on Fischer, and how they tried to come up
with an organized plan to beat Fischer. It�s
interesting to read how uninformed the Russians were
about the western world.

But were not the Western ppl uninformed about the Soviet world too? It is the result of "Iron curtain". Take any American movie about Russia or Soviet movie about the USA and u will be very amazed with very stupid mistakes. Remember "family ballalaika" in "Doctor Zhivago": it is incredible nonsense!

They had no idea why Fischer
>stopped playing for a while.

I also have no idea. Why?

Everything was secretive and everybody was
very suspicious. To get a subscription on a western
chess magazines was already very difficult.

Not only chess magazines, but also the papers of non communist orientation.

It�s also interesting to read how uncontrollable
Spasski was for the Soviet leaders. You know why
Spasski did not want to play the 1972 match in Russia?
He was afraid that other Russian players would help
Fischer!

???How can they do that? And why? I know that all Soviet players hated Karpov, but with Spassky it was ok.

There is no indication of an organized press campaign
against Fischer. One �dirty� article is mentioned.>Botwinnik (I have to look that up) is against the
articles and from then on such articles are not
published anymore.

Melik-Karamov, who made a film about World chess champions, confirmed that there was such a campaign.

The western press published much
more critical articles about Fischer and not entirely
unjustified. Fischer has very serious character flaws.

Did they publish "critical" or "dirty" articles? It is not the same thing.

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Replies:

Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, March 01 2004, 15:33:33
- Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial -- Katerina, Tue, March 02 2004, 5:01:23
  - Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial -- Peter van der Hoog, Sun, March 07 2004, 5:33:43
    - Still controversial -- Katerina, Sun, March 07 2004, 10:40:19
      - Re: Still controversial -- Peter van der Hoog, Fri, March 12 2004, 19:23:49
        Re: Still controversial -- Katerina, Sat, March 13 2004, 0:34:03
        "It depends on the person who informed the authors". -- Todd, Mon, March 29 2004, 20:26:46
        So, the circle is closed. Those ppl can't be trust for one bit. -- Katerina, Tue, March 30 2004, 2:33:10