Comments on: Two Views on Kasparov’s Bravery http://paulhoffman.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/two-views-on-kasparovs-bravery/ Paul Hoffman on science, food, words, chess, and everything else that's big fun. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:27:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paulhoffman http://paulhoffman.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/two-views-on-kasparovs-bravery/#comment-161 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:24:24 +0000 http://paulhoffman.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/two-views-on-kasparovs-bravery/#comment-161 Tom, I agree with you. Putin, you may recall, stepped in during Toiletgate and told the FIDE President, who happened to be meeting with Putin at the time, that the whole cheating allegations Topalov made against Kramnik were unsavory and a blight on Russia. Before then, FIDE wasn’t doing much to stop the nastiness. So cynics could see Kramnik’s remarks in Chess as a way of thanking Putin for getting involved.

The one thing I didn’t like about the article in Chess is that it didn’t include direct quotations. It just summarized Kramnik’s words.

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Kramnik must be trying to curry favor with the Kremlin; I don’t see how else to explain his remark. Everything I read about Putin’s Russia suggests it is still a police state, and it seems almost certain that he has killed people who are no more threatening than Garry. He’s repeatedly arrested and roughed up, so what is Kramnik talking about?

Tom

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