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On Nov 14, 5:38 pm, Taylor Kingston wrote:


It's impossible to make sense of that absurd dichotomy of yours,
Phil, but the distinction between straightforward chess analysis and
"forensic analysis a la Evans" is quite simple. Let's see if we can
make it clearer to you:

Chess analysis: "13...exd4 is an inferior move because it opens the
long diagonal for White's dark-squared bishop." -- This is the kind of
conclusion one can draw from the position itself. I have no
disagreement with Evans in this regard.

"Forensic" analysis: "A move like 13...exd4 makes it obvious Keres
was ordered to throw the game." -- This is the kind of thing on which
Evans and I disagree. For this sort of conclusion, the mere chess
position is nowhere near sufficient basis, in my opinion. Further
evidence is required.

we are talking about real oppression and coercion in a country where they
were normal - and you are talking like this!

that's all! but even in england people didn't want to look at the SU as it
was - and instead glamorized it, and wanted to adopt it! in the US you have
nothing even resembling a left-wing party, but in europe the idea of a
people's paradise in their own country was a constant post-war threat

when people start to whittle away at that with uninformed comments - then
that too is dangerous, and needs challenging - since after all, if you can't
make sincere observations about the chess scene, how can you make them about
more important ones?

so when writers 'challenge' the issue, you have to ask why? what i wrote
above is much looser than what orwell did in 1940, but the same thing about
the extraordinary laxity of attention that people had in the age of
dictators, an age, IMO, not quite closed! and one measured by body-bags

phil innes


Now you've done it. After seventy-two years of "clocked"
secrecy, IM Innes is now left with no choice but to print
the secret, innermost thoughts of Taylor Kingston, as
revealed in emails sent him by the latter in 1935.

I for one am anxious to learn whether or not TK even
realized there was a depression going on, and more
critically here, what he may have said regarding the
fluke performance of Dr. von Alekhine at San Remo,
which forensic studies since then have determined to
have been "mathematically impossible, except perhaps
for Bobby Fischer, armed with Fritz".

As we await the inevitable posting from IM Innes, it
may be wise to notify Larry Parr so he can begin
writing the usual ad hom. barrage to go along with
and "enhance" it. Don't try to stop him -- no one
can; when IM Innes says he will post the emails, it
is an undeniable fact -- like the Sun rising in the East.
Like the tides, or like gravity, or like fish being able to
swim. When the great IM Innes makes up his mind
to do something, it is as good as done. If he says
he will print the emails, you can bank on it getting
done. Nothing short of Death can stop him -- such
is his level of determination, his dedication, his...


(I have to go now. The library closes in five minutes.)


-- help bot


P.S. ...to be continued...