| Chess One 2006-08-23, 7:37 pm |
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"David Richerby" <davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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> jr <julrem7@aol.com> wrote:
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> Not necessarily It's not inconceivable that the Soviet Union would
> react to such a demand by throwing Karpov and his family in jail, too.
> That wouldn't help Korchnoi and would make Karpov's position worse.
I think, by other means, we see how close FIDE was identified with politics
of the Soviet Union. But I don't think Karpov could have beeen incarcerated
or even demoted - they were too afraid of him defecting.
quote:
> Why should he put himself at risk to do something that probably
> wouldn't help his opponent, anyway?
That's pragmatic! I think Dave Richerby is mainly in the right of it, and
Karpov's Komplaint would not have been noticed any more than any individual
/could be/ allowed to sway affairs of the collective.. OTOH, Larry Parr is
right by the same measure when he talks of sportsmanship, the lack of. Their
ain't a lot of that in power politics.
PI
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> Dave.
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