tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27359163.post8093761223668037345..comments2024-02-13T12:55:06.784+01:00Comments on Chess for All Ages: Convergence of Two ThemesMark Weekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10101044127493771263noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27359163.post-88964390971146215172008-01-23T12:48:00.000+01:002008-01-23T12:48:00.000+01:00Wahrheit - All very good points. Another weakness ...Wahrheit - All very good points. Another weakness was that Soviet Socialism bred a certain laziness in chess players who were favored by the system. Fischer, on the other hand, fought hard every game: no grandmaster draws for him. - MarkMark Weekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101044127493771263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27359163.post-74540408678913484582008-01-22T20:35:00.000+01:002008-01-22T20:35:00.000+01:00Russians v. Fischer is a great book--I'm intereste...<I>Russians v. Fischer</I> is a great book--I'm interested to see that the Soviets attributed certain weaknesses to Fischer that (some of their authors) had always tried to insist were weaknesses of the "Capitalist system" compared to the glories of Soviet man and the "Soviet School of Chess." They always claimed Soviet chess was "dynamic" and eschewed "dogmatism" as did the Marxist state, and that Fischer was a grasper of pawns like the capitalists were graspers of pennies.<BR/><BR/>There may be some truth to all of this, but I'm left with the impression that the grandmasters who submitted this material were to some extent telling the authorities what they wanted to hear, which ironically was always a weakness of the Soviet system.Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.com