Icahn ‘will do whatever it takes to win’
January 31, 2007
BY HOWARD WOLINSKY Business Reporter
Chicago Sun Times
Author Mark Stevens has some advice for Motorola executives about corporate activist and multibillionaire Carl Icahn, the subject of his 1993 biography, King Icahn:
• Underestimate Icahn at your peril. “Managements at the companies he has his eyes on almost always do,” he said. “Corporate management is raw meat for Carl.”
• Brush up on your chess. “Icahn was a top chess player at Princeton. He will do whatever it takes to win. He will surprise. He will come back from the dead. He will not go away until he wins. Motorola management is on the second move in the game, but Carl is already on his 10th.”
Here is the full article.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Napoleon Bonaparte played chess too. Europe was like raw meat to the guy and he ravaged it repeatedly for many years, coming back from the dead to finally be defeated at Waterloo.
He never lost a chess game against a human being, but like Kramnik and Kasparov he did lose against a Chess Computer called the Turk. All of Napoleon’s games can be found here:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=77025
These analogies must be part of the reason women decide to do something else with their time instead of playing chess!
LOL !!!
Carl Icahn played in college but it does not say he has played chess since then nor does it say that he supports chess in usa.
Carl is an obsessed businessman. I doubt that his mind has time to think about a chess move.
said Stevens, chief executive of MSCO Inc., a global marketing firm, and the author of the Business Week best seller, Your Marketing Sucks. He said Icahn considers fairness to be “stupid. He wants to be legal, but never fair. He does what it takes to win.”
Not sure this is an attitude we want to encourage in chess. We already have this attitude from Danailov and Topalov. This is one reason so many people suspect them of cheating.
Does anyone know Napoleons FIDE or USCF Rating? I am just curious.
Also it looks like Napoleon played women most of the time.
Chessbase has become RIDICOULUS, just accusation , and now FAULSE!!!!!!!! SHORT said chessabase has done so changing his words and interpretation….normal accuse for defending kramnik. PATETHIC
http://www.veselintopalov.net/article/nigel-short-and-false-publicationsù
Susan what do you think about it?
Bye to everyone
don’t get the above. what do you mean?
Looks like of the games on chessgames.com, Napolean is believed to have played women 66.7% of the time ie two out of the whole htree games recorded (assuming they are veracious). And why is thegender relevant here anyway? You would be hard pushed to find an objective criterai for this foe any time, let alone Napolean’s time.
And this is excluding The Turk, who was always occupied by a male.
Top chess player at Princeton probably means ‘very weak’.
Clearly he is better at greed and avarice than at chess.
Mirta,
Osjetim dovde krasan miris tvoje mackice.