There is no doubt that this shows the brilliance of Kasparov.  Kasparov went out as one of the greatest players ever in the history of chess.  It reminds me of Richelieu.  At the end of his life, Richelieu might well look back upon his career of service to the state with satisfaction.  He had accomplished everything he really cared about.  He had raised French prestige abroad, he had crushed all dangerous opposition to the monarchy at home; and he had built up a strongly centralized government.  yet Richelieu's administration was far from being an entirely successful one,, and nothing shows the limitation of vision which kept him from being a really great statesman more clearly than his inability to realize the extent of his failure.  His successes had been won at too great a cost to the state, and he left France miserable and impoverished.  The people were ground down by the excessive taxes raised to pay for his foreign wars; commmerce and industry languished: and even the governemnt was drifting perilously close to financial ruin.  In one respect at least, Richelieu did attempt to reform the unwieldy administrative system.  He sent out royal officials, called "intendants" with arbitrary powers to take over many of the duties of the noble governors of the provinces and the other traditional local officials.  This reform was in keeping with his general policy of centralizing the government of the state under the king's council and strengthening the authoiryt of the crown at the expense of such feudal institutions as still survived.  Well Needles to say Kasparov is a genious.!

Wow, GreenbayPackers!

That's a nice and interesting bit of history!

Thanks ;-)

Waldemar

geez green bay,sounds like ur doin a book report instead of watching a chess combo,i am scared to think of some1 asking u about the current economic status and future of the soviets lol