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Date Posted: 08:25:57 06/11/02 Tue
Author: Peter van der Hoog
Subject: Re: Evans on Karpov( in 1986)
In reply to: Todd 's message, "Re: Evans on Karpov( in 1986)" on 06:48:42 06/11/02 Tue

>Look up in the archives here fragments of Khariton's article about Montreal tournament where Tal was forced to support Karpov.

Sorry, I can’t find it. Could you give me the fragment?

>Spassky admitted that pressure had been put upon him during his match with Karpov.

But did he admit to this pressure?

>You forgot about Korchnoj!

I did not. They tried to ban Korchnoj from international tournements. I can’t remember a international tournement where Karpov and Korchnoj played together and Korchnoj accused a Sovjey player to give away a game to Karpov.


>I don't know. Maybe now he regrets about it, but at
>the time he followed the instructions from his
>Communist bosses.

That's right. Karpov would have never taken any risk.

Even from Karpov's own biography an unpleasant character arises. That unpleasant side of his character was/is strenghtened by the low recognation he got for his chess abilities.

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