From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: Review: "Inside Chess" latest issue
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:33:33 GMT


                           INSIDE CHESS
                         August 31, 1992
                        Volume 5, Issue 17

The cover story of this issue of "Inside Chess" is GM and 
Russian emigre Gregory Kaidonov's resounding victory at the 
World Open. Presented by American GM Michael Rohde, it is a fine 
look at his triumph with three annotated games by the winner in 
addition to a few unannotated ones.

In his editorial, GM and editor-in-chief Yasser Seirawan takes 
on World Champion Gary Kasparov regarding the selection process 
of the Brilliancy Prize at the Manila Olympiad. Seirawan readily 
discloses, as he should, that "[i]t is no secret that Gary 
Kasparov and I are annoyed with each other. Our difficulties 
stem from what I feel is his disloyalty to the GMA, but that is 
the subject of a different commentary. Suffice it to say that 
through three-quarters of the Olympiad we never spoke!"

Seirawan essentially charges Kasparov with conflict of interest. 
Apparently the two games which were the frontrunners for the 
Brilliancy Prize were Rogers-Milos and Kasparov-Nikolic. The two 
basic points of questionable conduct leveled by Seirawan is the 
allegedly intense lobbying Kasparov did on his own behalf 
coupled with failing to disqualify himself in the voting itself. 
Even if Seirawan's characterization of Kasparov's lobbying is 
exaggerated, surely Gary should have had enough common sense to 
realize that one should not be voting for an award when one is 
also seeking that award. Seirawan does point out that even 
without Kasparov's vote, there were enough for Kasparov-Nikolic 
to win, but goes to say that the (then) closer vote would not 
have been in Gary's favor without the lobbying. We are sure to 
hear more about this in the future!

Ian Rogers reports on the Category 16 tournament at Biel: "When 
Anatoly Karpov lost his Candidates quarterfinal [sic] match 
against Nigel Short in February, chess journalists around the 
world trumpeted the end of an era ... Six months on, these 
predictions are looking hopelessly inaccurate. Karpov scored two 
crushing tournament victories in Madrid and Biel. His result in 
Biel was particularly impressive." Most interesting is his 
recounting of the time-scramble at the end of the 
Karpov-Georgive game. This tournament was the first high level 
tournament played at the new time limit designed to eliminate 
adjourned games - 40 moves in two hours, then 20 moves in one 
hour, then 30 minutes to finish the game (40/2, 20/2, SD/30).

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