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Date Posted: 11:26:07 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 09:22:13 06/11/02 Tue

>Yes, the streak of Karpov's tournaments victories is more than impressive.And he deserves a place in Guinness. But his tournament victories in Milan (1975) and Montreal (1979) were in a big way rigged. In Milan Petrosian agreed to make four short draws with him in the semi-finals match (Karpov, by virtue of a better Sonneborgen-Berger, went to the final with Portisch). In Montreal, Tal slowed down in the last two rounds to allow Karpov to catch up. At that time Tal, simply by definition, was not allowed by the Soviets to come on top of "Tolenka".

Did Tal acknowledge it?


Can it be the truth?!

>>But did he admit to this pressure?

>It influenced the level of Spassky's play during the
>match.

I can imagine. Still I think it was in the interest of the communistic bosses that the strongest player would come on top. They apparantly thought Karpov was the strongest player and I think time proved them right. Karpov was, apart from Fischer, for years the strongest player. Yes, Korchnoj came near.

>And what do you think about the match at the time when
>Korchnoj's son had been beaten in concentration camp?

You can speculate that, with the right circumstances, Korchnoj would have been the better player. I am not convinced.

>With "the low recognition" you mean his chess Oscars
>and his orders?

Evans article is a clear example of the "low recognation". But what I meant is the low recognation he got earlier in his life. Sosonko also remembered that he had a low opinion of Karpov as a chessplayer. He thought Karpov was just an avarage player. Also Kortsnoj had no idea how strong Karpov was. They completely underestimated him. That's due to the style of Karpov. He has an enormous talent for the natural move. It does not look spectacular but is very effective.

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