HAROUT@USC-ECLC (04/28/83)
From: HAROUT <HAROUT@USC-ECLC> Ever since I read that Dr. Huebner had been nice enough to let Smyslov have an extra day of R&R (and Smyslov NOT return the favor when Dr. Huebner had requested it), I had this feeling Huebner would lose the match by some such manner displaying grave injustice as spinning a bloody roulette wheel. I implore the readers to imagine the enormous blow to a great Grandmaster that is losing a match by pure luck. It would have been very nice to see the neurotic German play the devastatingly young iceberg of a Russian (Kasparov) in a match determining the ultimate candidate to face the current world champion. Haroutioun R. Sarkissian -------
mclure@SRI-Unix (05/11/83)
I think a match between Korchnoi and Kasparov might be more interesting than a match between Huebner and Kasparov. It might be just the sort of Korchnoi "hold eaten offerred pawns/pieces" style that is required to blunt the ever-risky play of Kasparov. Look back a bit. Who held Tal back time after time? Korchnoi, of course. Certainly Korchnoi and Kasparov are at opposite ends of the extreme as far as care for material is concerned. Stuart