"bhnews" wrote in message . net...
geez, all i did was make a comment about the French Defense, and suddenly I
have Rommel's 7th Panzer Division rolling through my front yard!

Bhnews did not only "make a comment about the French Defense"; he also added a
gibe apparently aimed at alleged French military cowardice, presumably due to
the unexpectedly sudden fall of France in 1940. At least, that's what I infer
that NoMoreChess understood when he wrote his response to bhnews here.

By the way, the Tiger tank did not make its appearance till 1943...

Actually, Tiger I tanks were deployed to Wehrmacht units in the field in 1942.

The fact is, France had more tanks than Germany. They just had no idea how
to use them (with the exception of Degaulle).

General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary ideas about the operational and tactical
doctrines for armoured units were not emulated outside the Wehrmacht then.

Hey any good chess players among the German generals???? One would think
that at least a couple of them had an interest in chess.

As I recall, the German generals tended to play cards more than chess.
In 1945 Heinz Guderian, the Chief of the German General Staff, made a famous
statement to Hitler, comparing the Eastern Front to 'a house of cards'.

You might be interested in this book comparing Go and Mao Zedong's strategy:
"The Protracted Game: a Wei'Chi Intepretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy"
by Scott Boorman (1969, Oxford University Press)

--Nick