I already have responded to this post, yet I would like to add something.

ospam (Jerome Bibuld) wrote in
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Dear Nick,
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.

Dear Jerry,

Ever since Mike Murray began trolling me (and flagrantly distorting what I
had written, as Mark Houlsby noted) in the RGCP thread, "Sportsmanship and
pre-arranged results", I have been reluctant to write anything in response
to his posts. Yet this subject seems non-controversial enough, and I
thought that my post could be of some general interest.

I am pleased that you seem to think highly of my general knowledge of chess
and many other subjects. Of course, I expect that some writers here do know
more about chess (or chess history) than I do. Yet pleased be assured that
I do know more about chess (and chess history) than I have the time or the
inclination to write about in the chess newsgroups.

--Nick

Mike Murray wrote in
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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.