| Louis Blair 2006-08-21, 5:40 am |
| I wrote (10 Aug 2006 13:31:13 -0700):
7 ... GM Evans wrote for the March 1986 issue of Chess
7 Life:
7
7 "... [Karpov] will go down in history as the man
7 who avoided a match with Bobby Fischer and
7 then eluded him for the next ten years. ..."
7
7 Previously, GM Evans had written:
7
7 "Fischer refused to negotiate or compromise and his
7 stubbornness is what killed the match - nothing or
7 nobody else." - GM Evans (1975)
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After some comments by jr,
Phil Innes wrote (Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:38:38 GMT):
7 ... we need Another Voice in chess than these
7 Fide-all-the-way chaps.
7 ...
7 This is why in my opinion GM Evans should continue to
7 say whatever the hell he wants in ChessLife and elsewhere.
7 Even though I do not always understand or agree with his
7 perspective, I am not so arrogant as to think I know it all
7 in comparison to people who had to conduct themselves
7 through this misasmic environment and still play world
7 class chess at the end. ...
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I do not know who is a "Fide-all-the-way chap" in the
opinion of Phil Innes, and I certainly do not know how he
comes to such a conclusion, but I can be counted as
someone who is NOT a GM-Evans-all-the-way chap. If
the March 1986 quote is justified by any special knowledge
in the head of GM Evans, he apparently wants to keep it
to himself. After 1986, did GM Evans ever even repeat his
strange assertion about what "will" be in the history books
about Karpov in 1974-1975?
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