On Oct 1, 9:21 pm, Kenneth Sloan wrote:

Brava!
Is that Andean?

No, it's Italian. But only when you're applauding a woman.

Arnold was a woman?


No. But in Andean (a rare and little-studied language
mastered only by ackuddemiks like IM Innes), gender is
reversed; hence, bravo becomes brava, and vice-a becomes
versa.

It is rumored that soon after AD learned how the pieces
moved, one loser shouted "you play like a girl!"; ever after-
ward, Arnold Denker leaned a bit too-heavily toward wild,
reckless attacking play, as if to prove his manhood. But,
no, he definitely wasn't a woman. Ah, if only he had been!
Dear old Vera Menchik would not have been the only one
with her own club!

I think Dr. Sir IM Innes has a desperate need to try and
impress others with fakery, with pretensions to mastery
of fields in which he is a rank beginner. Take chess, for
instance; no, that was Rob Mitchell, who turned out not
to be IM Innes after all. Okay then, take anything other
than chess as an example.


I was at www.chessgames.com looking over a few of
Arnold Denker's games and noticed that a few of the
very top players in the world had no particular trouble
with him. But when I played over, for instance, a win
by GM Botvinnik, I noticed that it was precisely the
same opening he always played, and probably had
spent countless hours studying before the game. In
sum, virtually no one (except GM Fischer!) could hope
to stand a chance against all that preparation in this
"long variation" Slav Defense. (They still play it today,
and it's 95% pre-game prep.) Others who seemed to
have little trouble with AD were GMs Reshevsky and
Smyslov -- both top players.


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