Bill, in light of our interview, and Taimanov's response, what is your
opinion on all this matter?

While reticence serves equally well in such circumstances as we witness in
these threads, can there still be meaningful discussion beyond the spats of
previous contestants?

If Boris G gives me permission, it will set a stir, but outside the
phenomenology of current contestants, and revelations, what I understood
from Taimanov, [a bit under the radar of what was reported, and in much
writing] is a statement by an artist, not just a chess one but a great
musical one too - on this, what to call it?, interface [?] between the
creative art, philosophy, spirit of endeavor [?] and its management.

And it did seem to me that he replies not so much as a Russian on Soviet
schema, but as a man of the world, on the inevitable tensions present
between those who do it, and those who would manage it.

For someone of his experience and age, I gained the sense that he wished us
to understand the inevitability of such tensions [unresolved or imperfectly
appreciated ones in our societies, for sure] but that these things should
not be so shocking, and are to be expected.

He seemed rather nonplussed - but perhaps as he said elsewhere, while chess
provided the intellectual component to his life, music did for the spiritual
aspect of it - and so, as a mature man who was dumped in the dungeon on his
nation's afections, he, nolens volens [a latinism he likes!] he asks us to
consider the cusp of creativity, and its real limits, when re-presented
within any hierarchy.

He refers his own hierarchy, or government, but suggested 'all'.

Cordially, Phil Innes


"William Hyde" wrote in message
...
On Nov 16, 12:03 am, " wrote:
LAURIE'S '''CONFUSED MIND"
I agree with Mr.
Laurie that the implication can be found in what NM
Kingston wrote,

There you have it, one and all, in black and white, Larry
Parr claims that Kingston is an NM!

By the standards of evidence usual in these groups, that is as rock
solid as proof gets. No evidence to the contrary will ever, ever,
ever, be allowed to contradict this. He admitted it, after all!

Congratulations, NM Kingston!

And congratulations, Larry. It takes a big man to do that.

Now, if we can just get Neil Brennan to assert that Phil was rated
2400+, we can dump this absurd credentialism forever.

Or more likely, not.

William Hyde