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...There, last week, the most dramatic moment occurred in the initial match, when Short ran out of time, could not make his 40th move within the required two hours and lost to Kasparov. This outcome provided some grim satisfaction to purists; one of the reforms initiated by Kasparov's and Short's P.C.A. was to condense playing time in order to make championship chess more palatable to casual spectators...
...chess, a notoriously cerebral exercise, ever achieve the critical mass- market niche necessary to pay top players what they now think they are worth? To those who do not know the game, televised chess can seem slightly less enthralling than a test pattern. Despite all the hype, Kasparov and Short have not yet filled the Savoy to its 1,030-seat capacity. As both championship matches stretch on, and the war between FIDE and the top two players escalates, chess fans may come to wonder whether they are experiencing an embarrassment of riches or merely an embarrassment...
Short's early chess successes came almost too easily. By the time he was 23, he was ranked No. 3 in the world, behind world champion Gary Kasparov and ex- champ Anatoly Karpov. By his own admission, he had never worked very hard at the game. He relied heavily on a natural chess sense that allowed him to play brilliant moves almost intuitively, as if they came out of his fingertips, not his brain...
Over the board, Short does not display the sort of crass aggressiveness with which Kasparov intimidates his opponents. He is cool and controlled, though under pressure he may fidget like an Oxford don struggling for the right translation of an Ovid couplet. But behind this outer tranquillity, he plots his opponent's destruction. After all, this is a man who once described chess as mental boxing...
...GARY KASPAROV...