Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
His conclusion is: save your money and wait for
something better to come along. ... Nothing better
came along. My book on that match, graced with
an introduction by prime minister Tony Blair, is
the best you are going to get.
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Is GM Keene confident that his book will not be
surpassed by whatever Kasparov writes about the
match?
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
I excoriated Steinitz's tournament record during
a certain period. I described it as abysmal. Well
it was during this periodbecause he didn't play
any tournaments at all. I have used the same
word, or one similar, to describe Bobby Fischer's
record as world champion because hd did not play
at all. I fail to see what's wrong with that.
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Writing that someone had an abysmal record as
world champion is not the same as writing that
someone had an abysmal tournament record.
Larry Parr seems to fancy himself as an expert
on what "99 percent of chessplayers" would
conclude when reading an "unadorned assertion".
Does Larry Parr want to say something about
what they would conclude after reading an
assertion that Steinitz has an abysmal
tournament record over the years 1886-1894?
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
TK says that I wrongly described Kasparov's match
save in 1987 as the first time in 75 years that a player
had come from behind to secure the title. I would
appreciate a little more chapter, verse and context
here. I am confident TK will be able to produce his
precise source for newspaper quotes,
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"The Times, 21 December 1987" - Taylor
Kingston (29 Apr 2006 06:52:31 -0700)
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
It is also important for obvious reasons that the
surrounding text be identified.
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Will GM Keene be identifying the surrounding text
for his recently posted Edward Winter sentence
fragments?
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
TK also mentions an allegedly mistaken reference
to the 1983 Kasparov vs. Korchnoi match as a world
championship, but no precise reference or context
is supplied.
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I would guess that this is what Taylor Kingston had in
mind:
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ayphotohosting
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
I am criticised for writing that only in the late 18th
century were games recorded. Again a little context
would be helpful, but I still maintain that this is broadly
true.
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Does GM Keene claim that it is broadly true that
"chess games were first recorded towards the end of
the eighteenth century"?
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Larry Parr reported (30 Apr 2006 17:46:21 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
I should mention that the recent Da Vinci copyright
case in London appeared, however, to establish that
copyright cannot be breached if the author is
supplying fact.
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Does this mean that anyone can post as much as they
want of any Keene books?
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Larry Parr reported (29 Apr 2006 06:59:06 -0700)
that GM Keene wrote:
I am always ready to correct something if it can
be done.
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Does GM Keene maintain that Taylor Kingston
decided to "concentrate" on Duras-Teichman
(Ostend, 1906)?
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"there is ... a literary and historical problem:
a lack of context and setting for many of these
games. ... Occasionally, ... [Soltis] provides
good scene-setting, but in other cases, we
must content ourselves with the thumbnail
biographies.
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... It's interesting that Oldrich Duras gave up
chess in 1914 after marrying a wealthy
woman, but this has no relevance to his win
over Teichmann at Ostende 1906. I am
surprised and amused that Veselin Topalov
once tried bullfighting, but ...
In short, too often we don't learn ... THE
STORY OF THE PARTICULAR GAME.
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A contrasting approach is found in Ludek
Pachman's Decisive Games in Chess
History (1975). ...
...
... Pachman sets the stage, puts us on the
scene." - Taylor Kingston
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http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review246.pdf