Black & White

international | miscellaneous | other press Wednesday March 23, 2005 20:51 by iosaf = o as if = sofia = if Osa - ipsiphi

the game of kings.

I'm a chess fan, its been two years since I left a comment on the Almuajaha "iraqi witness" Baghdad independent media site which I'm quite proud of -

"Do not play chess unless you see checkmate".

So I thought to share with you news of two Chess Grand Masters who are in the news at this time for well doing and saying stuff on the dirty game of knaves which is politics.

supercomputers are colour blind you know.

One is American Bobby Fischer is in the news for finally getting a visa to live in Iceland.
He's been "hiding" in Japan and then "held" in Japan who despite all the pressure, just didn't give in and say "we are closer to San Francisco" than Saigon and have agreed to send him to Iceland (the country of his choice).
Iceland is north west of Ireland, the people look like Björk and come to Ireland to avail of cheap christmas stuff in the Stephens Green centre every year. Iceland has a bit of a reputation for being "racist" on account of it not having a lot of "black people". nd accordingly it has decided to "stay out of" the European Union (which takes racism very seriously).

Ireland however can't afford to stay out of the EU.

Mr Fischer is very odd, he's wanted by the FBI, by the NSA and by the CIA for being -

an ardent supporter of Al Qaeda.
not paying tax.
being virulently anti-semitic (jewish type semitic)

links on him-
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050323/w032308.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4299877
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1444253,00.html

The other Chess Grand Master I want to tell you about is Garry Kasparov, he's really cool, he got paid for playing supercomputers, winning several games against IBM's Deep Blue in the last years but losing the fifth.
This certainly made him interesting to the NSA and
to be frank "me".

Kasparov came to Spain to play his last tournament (where I live) (which he won) and talk about politics and made official his announcement to retire from Chess and amidst expressing his opposition to the war on Iraq (remember it was global oppose war day) reiterated his intention to run against Mr Putin.
on March 11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4338719.stm

This is not a surprise .:.
= please don't be surprised.


For Kasparov had given an interview to the BBC on this very subject on January 11-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4163439.stm

Kasparov leads a party of "liberals" who have run against Putin before, and are finding a lot of ground amongst the emigré community who thought to invest their nest eggs (not fabergé) in Yukos. Which of course Mr Putin sold.- And Mr bush bought. and well it gets sticky...

here's the link to the game that Kasparov lost to the supercomputer "deep blue" on May 11 (lots of eleven eh?) 1997. "a fascinating game" indeed.

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/


and here's the latest on him-

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/nyregion/20chess.html
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9be41a8-97e1-11d9-912c-00000e2511c8.htm0l
and for fans a look at one of the forgotten games with Karpov in 1985
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2273

Kasparov doesn't support Al Qaeda.
Kasparov isn't anti-semite either.

There aren't many people alive who play supercomputers, (and even fewer who win)
and so their minds are certainly worth a ponder.

=
ponder-.
do get into chess. play a game. be european. buy a milky coffee, date someone with good skin, and play a game in a park. don't worry if you lose. you'll learn from it.