(Taylor Kingston) wrote in message . com...
(Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) wrote in message om...

Due to his success, Fine had even the nerve
to insist that he and Keres should be called
world cochampions.

When did Fine "insist"?

I rely on my memory only. Thus
my recollections are prone to
overstatement or even outright
errors (but not too bad :-)
-- only very recently I have recovered
my Oxford Companion.

Regards,

Wlod
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The relevant passage from the 1976 edition
of "The World's Great Chess Games," where he discusses the Soviets'
huffy withdrawal from the proposed tournament in 1947, does not sound
like insistence:

"Legally there were various possibilities. Euwe might have reclaimed
the title, as the last official champion before Alekhine. Or Keres and
Fine could have been declared co-champions on the basis of their joint
victory in the AVRO tournament. Or Euwe, Fine and Reshevsky might have
played a three-cornered tournament to decide the championship. Or the
free world might have chosen a champion, and the communist world been
left to choose its own; then the two could have met for the world
championship."

The Fine/Keres co-championship is only one of several possibilities,
none of which are "insisted" upon. Did Fine insist in some other book?
Just curious.

Taylor Kingston