kasparov-retirement is a mistake?
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this is a forum about kasparov's retirement from Chess into *ughh....*politics
comment please!
We should probably be fair to Mr. Kasparov. His getting into "politics" is a bit different than what we in the US or Canada usually think about our politicians. As I understand it, he feels that there is an authoritarian regime taking control of his country and that he is compelled to do something about that. That seems like an important undertaking.
Kasparov was on top of chess for something like 20 years. I have to imagine he is very satisfied with what he accomplished. Now he feels a burning passion for political change. I would wish him good luck.
A man who dedicated the entire first half of his life after infancy to chess. Has achieved every yardstick pertaining to chess - in most cases more than once. Lived chess. Retired with a distinctive supremacy over every other chess player in the world.
I would love to see him play exhibition matches during his retirement but if he re -enters competitively I think he would be diminishing his legacy and would waste an opportunity to excel in something other than the game.
He is a genius. His memory is incredible and powers of deduction and reasoning in the top scale. There is life after chess and I would be disappointed to see him relinquish this.
Quixotical wrote:
A man who dedicated the entire first half of his life after infancy to chess. Has achieved every yardstick pertaining to chess - in most cases more than once. Lived chess. Retired with a distinctive supremacy over every other chess player in the world.
I would love to see him play exhibition matches during his retirement but if he re -enters competitively I think he would be diminishing his legacy and would waste an opportunity to excel in something other than the game.
He is a genius. His memory is incredible and powers of deduction and reasoning in the top scale. There is life after chess and I would be disappointed to see him relinquish this.
Cheers!
i agree with quixotical
JoseO wrote:
As good as Kasparov was, he is getting older just as we all are. It gets harder and harder as time goes by to maintain the level of play that he is expected to maintain. Given how much he has accomplished as a player, perhaps he felt that he did not have anything else to prove and was beginning to feel burned out from all the chess that he has played.
I remember how jazzed I was when he was playing Deep Blue (both the first and second encounters) and the time that he played against the entire world where players got to choose what move to play and had assistance in terms of advice from some chessmasters.
Granted that there are several people who would have like to seen him keep playing or being given another rematch against Deep Blue (shame on you IBM for not allowing this) but he is now turning his attention to an area that he felt that he could re-direct his energy towards and I wish him the best in this new arena.
Thank you Mr. Kasparov for your efforts throughout the years with the promotion of chess and may you be as successful in your new arena as you were in the chess arena.
You may not want to wish him too much luck in this new arena, lest men in suits show up on your doorstep.
silentfilmstar13 wrote:
You may not want to wish him too much luck in this new arena, lest men in suits show up on your doorstep.
Do you really think the folks in charge in Russia would resort to base thuggery to get what they wanted? That seems so unlikely to me. (In case you missed it, the preceding was sarcasm.)
Whatever else we might think about Mr. Kasparov, you have to admit it takes guts to make yourself a political problem in some parts of the world.
what do you think about about kasparov's retirement of PRO chess...for me its no biggie but i'd like to hear from you guys...or girls...
do u think it was a mistake or is it right?....