Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

[ravi]

At around 3/5/06 6:42 pm, Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> I am possibly the worst chess player in the world.
> Kasparov could probably defeat me with one pawn
> against 16 queens. However, as a politician the guy is
> an idiot. Any day now he will blame Putin for
> programming Big Blue. ;)
> 

I bet you could beat me at chess with just your king and all my pieces
;-). Talking of Kasparov: a while back he said something to the effect
that women cannot (ever) play as well as men, which he has reversed
recently. He also cheated young Judit Polgar (17?) of a victory, many
years ago, though IIRC she recently beat him at speed chess. Another
Larry Summers like genius Bobby Fisher made similar statements about
women's abilities in chess. Funny that she became the youngest GM in
history, beating old Bobby's record ;-).

	--ravi

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