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is Garry Kasparov cheater?

Transcript of incident from video analysis (7:50-11:39) of the Polgar-Kasparov game during the time pressure incident:

"But what actually happens here is Kasparov touched his knight, and made a move with his knight to c5. And then he saw if he moves there there would be Bc6 skewing the queen and rook, which result would most likely be a loss for Kasparov. So he changed his move ... he moved his knight to f8.

"But the problem was when he moved, he let go of the piece. Judit Polgar saw this, and she was stunned. She looked at the arbiter and there was no response from him. She made a mistake and didn't disupte this, didn't claim that Kasparov had let go of the piece. That move should have been final, and the most probable result would most likely been a Kasparov loss.

"Afraid her claim would have lost, and she would have been penalized time on the clock, and they were in time pressure. She should have established a claim and won that game. The actual event was recorded on camera, and saw that Kasparov let go of the Knight on c5, for less than a second.

"After that, she never shook hands with Kasparov for a few years, whenever they met."

What Judit says:

"Kasparov touched a knight in our 1994 Linares game and didn't move with this piece afterwards. Unfortunately there were no witnesses and also the arbiter was not there. There was a video tape which they didn't show me. We didn't talk for a long time after that."

- From an August, 1996 interview with Martin Raubal (Scroll down to bottom of interview)

Comments


  • 16 months ago

    Balachandar

    what kaspa says is he is sure that he never left his piece and his conscience is clear. Also, after the game, polgar met him in his room and asked him "how could you do this to me?"
  • 3 years ago

    love_romance13

    ya u rite lukez it was not gud 4 tacticle bt there is clear rule of ICC that if u remove ur hand or finger 4m piece u cant move that peice again til ur next turn bt he moved that n he not only brok the rule bt as gr8 player he got b lack spot on his carrer

  • 3 years ago

    Lukez

    I heard about this a while ago. The impression I got was it took an 'instant replay', a humorous thought in the chess world, to show that he did let go for a split second, and Polgar did not dispute it as a show of sportsmanship, or sportswomanship if you will. He did move that Knight though, after having touched it, but to a square where it was not vulnerable to the tactic.

    I don't remember where I heard this though.

  • 3 years ago

    love_romance13

    she didnt do it cuz she thought if she couldnt prove it then she get penlaty in time n she was already behind in time thats y she let it go

  • 3 years ago

    MANNY123

    why did she just not complain at the site of the infraction, while i dont think she would make this up... its one of those after the fact, 20/20 hindsight it goes down as your word against his,sorry about that....as it goes now having learn she would most likely do the right thing at the moment, lets hope so anyway.

  • 3 years ago

    love_romance13

    it dosent matter wo win or lost bt there is thing like sportsman spirit man n gary is no1 player in the history n wen player like him do that typ of thing its really shockin n hurtin all of the chess players feelings

  • 3 years ago

    John_Strife

    What i find most interesting is that he still managed to win even after he pretty much wasted a turn.

  • 3 years ago

    Yanning

    cheater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 3 years ago

    love_romance13

    comments plz

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