On Nov 7, 7:03 am, " wrote:

"Not to grant provisional assent to the hypothesis of coercion on
Keres seems
willfully obtuse. Conclusion: the Commies did it." -- Taylor Kingston
on Keres throwing games to Botvinnik in the 1948 Championship.

That issue has been rehashed ad infinitum and most scholars

More lies from Larry Parr. There are no "scholars"
when it comes to this sort of thing; it is a matter of
logic and reason, not the interpretation of historical
documents.


now agree
with Larry Evans's analysis of the games in his groundbreaking article
THE TRAGEDY OF PAUL KERES (Chess Life, October 1996).

That article broke wind, not ground.


But the Botster conveniently omits the attempt by NMnot Kingston to
secretly contact Richard Laurie to try and persuade him to retract an
item he submitted to Chess Life.

That is /irrelevant/, not "convenient". Nothing TK has
done or can do has any impact whatsoever on the fact
that GM Evans' article was worthless. Only in the very
strange mind of Larry Parr are these two things tightly
interwoven; for LP, there is some sort of war going on
in which victory over the enemy equates to verification
of irrational thinking. Rational thinkers can see clearly
that no war can ever decide such matters.


"I didn't want to spend three months of my life watching Soviets throw
games to each other," Reuben Fine explained to GM Evans when asked why
he declined to participate in the 1948 World Championship.

More fluff. I like a house to be built upon a
foundation of concrete, cement. Granted it is
cold and hard, but it still beats a foundation of
fluffery.

So long as the case for GM Bronstein continues
to be plagued by "support" from hacks, it is going
to be tough going. Anyone who would like to
make a serious case would be well advised to
wait until these ratpackers go away, lest their
rational arguments be dismissed as lunacy out of
sheer force of habit.


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