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During Game 8, I found myself in a room with the U.S. chess champion (Lev Alburt), four grand masters and one legend, former World Champion Mikhail Tal. It was like watching the World Series with five Hall of Famers parsing every pitch and Cy Young correcting them. On Karpov's 23rd move the parsing got slightly crazy: If Kasparov does A then Karpov must do B. If Kasparov then tries C and Karpov answers with D, look out: E, F and G follow. But if Kasparov does Z, then...
...Alburt, who left the USSR in 1979, said "international chess ambassadors" such as he was must follow government instructions regarding winning and losing games...
Most members of the audience in the Coolidge Hall classroom wanted to hear Alburt's views on the recent suspension a few weeks ago of the world championship match between defender Anatoly E. Karpov and Gary K. kasparov, both Russian...
...Alburt said that the champion who is "a darling of the Establishment," successfully appeared to politically influential friends to have the World Chess federation match stopped when the challenger tried to wear him down by playing for draws...
...Alburt] seems to have a lot of inside information," said Thomas C. Zuppa, a member of the Massachusetts Chess Association Board of Directors...