John Macnab wrote in message
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Nick wrote:
John Macnab wrote in message
news:VIqfb.12298$pl3.8215@pd7tw3no...(to D.D. Eckerslyke)
Unless you're a master, you probably won't notice that the books are older.

Ahem, Mr. Eckerslyke might notice it when he's playing against a master. :-)

I suspect you're joking. He'll have much bigger problems than move order
against masters.

'All we say, all we do, all we wish for, is a jest.'
--Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

Dear Mr. Macnab,

Your suspicion is natural since I often have written jokes in my posts here.

Yes, I was joking about your choice of words to Mr. Eckerslyke: "Unless
you're (Mr. Eckerslyke is) a master, you probably won't notice that the books
are older." Perhaps you *also* meant that Mr. Eckerslyke should have need of
newer books to study *before he plays against a master* as well as when he has
become a master himself. :-)

Your statement to Mr. Eckerslyke could have been rewritten as:
"Unless *you're playing against a master*, you probably won't notice that the
books are older." (In which case, "playing against a master", Mr. Eckerslyke
probably would not have too long in the game to be able to notice it.)

ok I exaggerated here. My Scotch is in the spirit of Mieses, my Ruy Lopez
patterned after Lasker

Emanuel or Edward? :-)

my King's Indian after Bronstein and my Sicilian makes it all the way up
to about 1970. As for the rest, I just make it up as I go along.

Do you play the Yugoslav Attack in the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian? :-)

"It is impossible to conceive of anything in the world, or indeed beyond
the world, which can be considered good without qualification, except a
good will."
--Immanuel Kant

'Who can laugh, and be angry, in the same moment?'
--Samuel Richardson (Sir Charles Grandison)

--Nick