From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: Inside Chess, Sept. 14 issue
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:34:23 GMT


                           INSIDE CHESS
                        September 14, 1992
                        Volume 5, Issue 18

The cover story for the latest issue of "Inside Chess" is 
Peruvian Grandmaster Julio Granda Zuniga's first place finish in 
the Reshevsky Memorial held in July in New York. His 7-2 finish 
(+5 -0 =4) put him a half-point ahead of Judit Polgar and two 
full points ahead of Psakhis and Benjamin. As usual, the 
tournament coverage is solid, with a fine selection of both 
annotated and unannotated games.

However, it seems to us that the two key articles in this issue 
are both by Seirawan: His look at the state of the GMA and his 
coverage of the preliminary happenings at the Fischer-Spassky 
match. The GMA article, clearly an editorial, laments the demise 
of this organization dedicated to promoting chess at the 
grandmaster level. Seirawan points out that Kasparov is now 
working to promote yet another organization, and he does not 
regard Kasparov's actions kindly:

    The GMA was turned upside down by the resignation of FIDE 
    World Champion Garry Kasparov in Murcia, Spain, in June 
    1990. Since that time Garry has turned irrevocably bitter 
    towards the GMA. In a recent interview in "Europe Echecs," 
    Garry state that the GMA had become "worse than FIDE ever 
    was." He further stated that he would never "set foot in 
    Brussels [GMA headquarters] again."

    What had the GMA done to deserve this denunciation? Garry 
    had lost a vote over an agreement between the GMA and FIDE. 
    When Garry didn't get things his way, he quit. According to 
    Jan [Timman, former GMA president], Garry espouses 
    democracy, but he doesn't understand democracy at all. 
    Democracy is the "will of the majority, not the will of one 
    person."

The second article appears to be a collation of various items 
from various sources about the Fischer-Spassky match. As such, 
they are very interesting. It does give us new perspectives on a 
story which we are all following closely. There is a singular 
lack, however, of any of the ugly comments and attitudes being 
spewed by Fischer or comments thereon by Yasser or anyone else. 
For the time being, we will attribute this to the article having 
been written prior to the start of the match (which clearly 
seems to have been the case). We await further commentary from 
Yasser.

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