ospam (Jerome Bibuld) wrote in message ...
Dear Nick,
And a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year to you!

Dear Jerry,

Thanks very much, Happy New Year to you too.

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.

Yes, I can recall some reports of non-blindfold simultaneous chess exhibitions
having taken place in the Soviet Union after 1930.

I had assumed from the context of what I quoted from Mike Murray's post,
to which I was responding, that it should be evident that I was referring to
*blindfold* 'simultaneous chess exhibitions'. You are right, however, that
I also should have explicitly written 'blindfold'. Actually, I *already*
had explicitly written that in an earlier post of mine.

For the record, in the rec.games.chess.analysis thread, "How do you read
chess notation?" (15 August 2003), I wrote (to Mark Houlsby):
"Beginning in 1930, *blindfold chess* simultaneous exhibitions were banned
in the Soviet Union."

In my later response, unfortunately, I was typing too quickly and I
happened to misquote myself, for which I have only myself to blame. :-)

By the way, as far as I know, individual blindfold games (for training
purposes) were not banned in the Soviet Union.

--Nick

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

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