Dear Nick,

Heil Dubya!

And a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year to you!

I'm sure your posting "error" was pure carelessness -- and, of course, it
could be taken from the context that you were referring to blindfold play, but
the ban was against BLINDFOLD simuls, not against simuls.

Mike Murray wrote in
message . ..
(snipped)
I believe the Soviets at one time discouraged blindfold play,
believing it mentally harmful.

As I recall, beginning in 1930, simultaneous chess exhibitions were
banned in the Soviet Union.

--Nick


Heute Uhmuhrikkka, Afghanistan und Irak. Morgen die ganze Welt!

Uhmuhrikkka, Uhmuhrikkka über Alles!

(Was 11 September 2001 Kristallnacht or the date of the Reichstag fire?)

Fraternally,

Jerry
[I did not go on trial on 5 January, for refusing to move away from a
demonstration site -- against the U. S. invasion of Iraq -- when ordered by a
member of the Army of Occupation of Westchester County, despite the fact that
the demonstrators had a "permit" to do exactly what I was doing, at the time
and place I was doing it. Instead the "system" copped out by offering an ACD
(Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal). The ACD effectively prevents suit
for false arrest. Twice, the U. S. INjustice system had postponed trial, in a
case which should have been dismissed out of hand. But, of course, that's part
of the system. This took up MY time -- and that of my lawyer, whose time is
worth more than I PAID him. Meanwhile, the judges, assistant district
attorneys, court clerks, bailiffs, stenotypists and other apparatchniks were
being paid by MY taxes and the taxes of other citizens and subjects of the
United States. My son, Douglass, has coined an apt phrase that I am proud to
use: HYPOCRISY, NOT DEMOCRACY!]
gens una sumus