Kasparov at it again, this time in Shogi:

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

Only Chess

01 Apr 08

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53321

01 Apr 08

First game he played, he almost defeated a 3 Dan pro Shogi player:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4544

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

01 Apr 08

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Originally posted by sonhouse
First game he played, he almost defeated a 3 Dan pro Shogi player:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4544

Ah, grasshoppah, treat everything from Chessbase News posted on April 1 with some suspicion. 😉

(That Frederic can be one tricky guy.)

Edit - I haven't read today's Chessbase stories in detail. There are two stories posted that have potential for prankism. (This one and the Fischer archives story.) I'm not sure which one is real. Who knows, with Frederic's devious mind, maybe they're both fake? 😀

Ikuturso

Joined: 09 Feb 08
Moves: 6057

01 Apr 08

The same story was published in German last November, so nothing fishy there probably:
http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=7305

wittywonka

Chocolate Expert

Cocoa Mountains

Joined: 26 Nov 06
Moves: 19249

01 Apr 08

Originally posted by sonhouse
First game he played, he almost defeated a 3 Dan pro Shogi player:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4544

Interesting read, thanks for posting it.

Jusuh

back in business

Joined: 25 Aug 04
Moves: 1264

01 Apr 08

I dont know lot about shogi (actually i know lot but im so humble), but it didnt quite seem like Kasp winning at any point. Or even better.

Tyrannosauruschex

Mr T

I pity the fool!

Joined: 22 Jan 05
Moves: 22874

01 Apr 08

I think that story about finding fischers hidden online accounts is the real april fools - they had emails dated back to the 1970s which, as far as I am aware, would not have been a method of communicating at all in those days.

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

01 Apr 08

Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
I think that story about finding fischers hidden online accounts is the real april fools - they had emails dated back to the 1970s which, as far as I am aware, would not have been a method of communicating at all in those days.

I didn't read the article, but I did glance at the photo and noticed a Faber and Faber copy of My 60 Memorable Games. I know that Fischer was apoplectic about the Batsford edition. I'm not sure what his opinion was on the Faber edition, but I think his favorite was the Simon and Schuster edition. So I would have expected to see the S&S edition before any others. Maybe this is another hint from the demonic minds at Chessbase.

OrangeKing

Joined: 11 Sep 06
Moves: 17376

01 Apr 08

Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
I think that story about finding fischers hidden online accounts is the real april fools - they had emails dated back to the 1970s which, as far as I am aware, would not have been a method of communicating at all in those days.

Read the emails - it's clearly a prank, and a funny one at times. 🙂

The shogi story was interesting; not surprising that Kasparov played at least a reasonably good game his first time out, since the skills should transfer over fairly well. After all, the best shogi player in the world is also an FM in chess! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habu_Yoshiharu