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Looks like the article had an original publication date of May 7, 1989. Possibly, some of the other notes are new, but probably just recycled for another online entry to the viewing site. Stopping by there today also showed another date of 21 January above (today's date), but it appears that the 14 Jan date did not appear, normally due for publication on a weekend day.
Generally speaking, it is a very poorly composed article that was taken from the original nearly twenty years ago. For example the first paragraph is repeated twice.
There are missing moves. The opening follows the Exchange Variation of the Gruenfeld as played by Kasparov vs Karpov up to move 12.
The article has been reproduced for us today most likely because it contains a strong message ---
That Walter Browne had been psychologically harrassed in the tournament by a Soviet Player ( this was 1989 and the cold war was still on! ) and that this player was also the judge for the brilliancy prize. Walter was unable to submit his good / great effort.
In reviewing this game, there were no spectacular moves, however Browne played amazingly forceful chess.
It was the 'irritation' from Eduard Gufeld that makes this article very interesting.
It will also be interesting to see how long the article stays in the PASTIMES column of the New York Times. Newspapers know the power of repetition.
Last edited by Anthony Cheron; Thursday, 22nd January, 2009, 12:13 AM.
Oh, that's nice, publish accusations that Gufeld can't or didn't have a chance to answer & publish alleged hearsay from another player. American chess journalism of course. During the cold war and even today if Browne had said that Gufeld had horns on his head and gave him the evil eye or deliberately had bad breath, that would have been published too. So Browne was irritated, doesn't seem like much to be irritated about and how did Gufeld supposedly know that Browne was irritated and how does that ipso facto lead to the surmise that Gufeld would have refused the brilliancy prize just because it was Browne? Doesn't appear to be any brilliancy there, it's a brilliancy prize not a nice move prize.
When Fischer made these sort of complaints alot of people dismissed them as his overreacting. What makes Browne different?
I think this is from the NY Times archieve and not an article published today.
Still, Mr. Gufeld was among the few Soviet grandmasters allowed to travel freely outside the Soviet Union in the 1970's and 1980's, a privilege usually reserved for the best players.
There were rumors that Mr. Gufeld was permitted such freedom because he was working with or for the Soviet secret police
Perhaps it was a fear of Gufeld, or a fear of this rumour , that made Walter so nervous. ( Walter Browne is naturally nervous to begin with -- adding more nervousness than ever in playing a purported KGB agent ?? )
Of course we are in New York here in 1989. There is also the possibility that Browne may have played this rumour up by pretending to be irritatied by Gufeld but somehow I don't think so. Gufeld seems to have been feared and despised by many.
Gufeld was also reported to have stated that Karpov would never be a GM, he was too thin! This told to Geller.
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