Re: Do you like Kasparov's "On my great predecessors"?

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:11:21 GMT, "The Masked Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>I took a look, and I agree with the detractors: it's an expensive
>money-maker for a player who is cashing in on his name while he can. And
>calling Capa complacent is hardly controversial: everyone knows that the
>Chess Machine coasted on his own innate skill, and why not? He was a lot
>happier of a person than Alekhine.

Can you blame Alekhine?  Here he is trying to beat the most gifted
player maybe in history so he spends literally his whole life
dedicated into beating this one player.  If Capablanca only knew what
he was dealing with maybe he would have kept his title.

EZoto