On Jan 17, 10:54 pm, The Historian
wrote:

My apologies to the newsgroup for not catching the flaw in your
argument that allowed you to practice your "fact-kitting" once again.
Comparing the authenticity of the alleged Capablanca remark to the
documentation establishing authorship of the Shakespeare canon is a
highly flawed analogy. A better one is to compare the alleged Capa
remark to one of the legends of Shakespeare, such as the well-worn
story of Shakespeare holding horses outside a theater. Most
biographers mention the horse-holding without putting much stock in
its authenticity.

However, the horse-holding story is at least specific to Shakespeare.
The alleged Capa quotation is one that gets assigned to different
speakers as needed, which was Winter's point.

Um, no. Mr. Winter's point, as you say, was
that no "reliable source" exists for this to be
reported as a quotation of Jose Capablanca;
hence, Gary Kasparov erred in presenting it
as such. The proper handling was shown by
the Larry Evans snippet, which treated the
story as a casual anecdote.


The initial post in this
thread, for instance, attributed the quotation to another speaker.

That guy was wacky. Everyone knows that
the anecdote in question generally refers to
none other than The Chess Machine, Jose
Capablanca. In particular, the phrase "always
the best (move)" can hardly be applied to the
common rabble, or even to mediocre
grandmasters for that matter. If one were to
err in attributing this to another player, it
obviously would have to be a player of the
very finest caliber-- not some random wood-
pusher or second-rate GM. The story needs
to be believable, or it just won't sell.


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