"J.D. Walker" wrote in message
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Chess One wrote:

I feared Larry Parr would be so slaughtered by Taylor Kingston's reply
that he would crack a rib laughing, and have to swear off the newsgroup
for a month unless he cracked another one. Then I could come in with what
Russians themselves actually say about the issue, and begine to cite from
Bronstein, Taimanov, Roschal, Gulko, Khalifman, and so on, to the
'scholars' who ...

if they exist

... who won't /care/ to look.

Phil Innes

Dear Mr. Innes,

I may not be one of the aforesaid scholars, but I am curious to know what
the Russian GMs you cited have to say about this incident... If you have
the time, the inclination and their comments are available in English.

I do have them, and your curiosity credits you as normally intelligent. They
are not in the slightest bit strange to normal investigative intelligence,
and what is raised here, is by those people who are otherwise.

It is their contention, that while they might do their own research, by
reading on the subject they espouse, or even after direct inquiry
[references provided to them], Soviet 'fixing' does not exist.

Instead of asking me after entirely normative reports on this subject -by
scholars - how come you do not ask those who have, rightly or wrongly,
obtained a deviant understanding? To report what is normal to those who
cannot declare it as such, is a great task. You will note in the Kingston
communication in response to Larry Parr he was unable to name his nouns -
which is to say, some coteries of expertise exists in his opinion, and I ask
who they are and what they think, and what this is to him?

He is unlikely able to make an acuitous response.

Otherwise this course of study is far too high for Soviet-Chess 101, indeed,
those who do not do their homework will never attain the master's class in a
way enabling them to even understand its precepts.

Phil Innes



Cheers,
Rev. J.D. Walker, U.C.

'Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.'
-- (Exodus 23:2)
'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society.'
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti