One may wonder if Sultan Khan didn't care for
the Western chess due to his (possible) disgust
with the Western chess players' (lack of sufficient)
personal hyggiene. During the years of Sultan Khan's
chess activity the air conditioning was not yet
around the chess tournament halls, chess players
were smoking and drinking (and stinking).
Today Anand can be grateful for the airconditioning.

Here is a quote from Robert Kanigel's, (c) 1991,
"The Man who Knew Infinity. A Life of the Genius
Ramanujan.", ISBN 0-684-19259-4 (see p.244),
quote:

Even the prevalence of body odors among the
English nystified him--until, the story goes,
one day he was enlighten about it at a tea party.
A woman was complaining that the problem with
the working classes was that they failed to bathe
enough, sometimes not even once a week. Seeing
disgust writ large on Ramanujan's face, she moved
to reassure him that the Englishemen -he- met
were sure to bathe daily. "You mean", he asked,
"you bathe only -once- a day?


Regards,

Wlod

(Florida Chess) wrote in message . com...
I witnessed an absolutely disgusting player at the USOPEN:

He was a senior player with all sorts of open wounds on his arms

He constantly picked his teeth (with both hands) and then would touch
the pieces leaving fragments of decaying food/flesh on the pieces and
board

Next he would belch constantly with no effort to stop himself and just
being a spectator many feet away I could smell a very strong, foul
odor

He also found it necesary to constantly pick his nose

I wonder if his opponent shook his hand at the end of the game?

Comments?




Did he wear a purple shirt?

I don't remember what color his shirt was, however, I am certain it
was discolored by various bodily fluids and food/drink stains and
such.





(Rafael Rodriguez) wrote in message . com...
(Florida Chess) wrote in message . com...
I witnessed an absolutely disgusting player at the USOPEN:

He was a senior player with all sorts of open wounds on his arms

He constantly picked his teeth (with both hands) and then would touch
the pieces leaving fragments of decaying food/flesh on the pieces and
board

Next he would belch constantly with no effort to stop himself and just
being a spectator many feet away I could smell a very strong, foul
odor

He also found it necesary to constantly pick his nose

I wonder if his opponent shook his hand at the end of the game?

Comments?




Did he wear a purple shirt?

"Florida Chess" wrote in message
om...
I witnessed an absolutely disgusting player at the USOPEN:

He was a senior player with all sorts of open wounds on his arms

He constantly picked his teeth (with both hands) and then would touch
the pieces leaving fragments of decaying food/flesh on the pieces and
board

Next he would belch constantly with no effort to stop himself and just
being a spectator many feet away I could smell a very strong, foul
odor

He also found it necesary to constantly pick his nose

I wonder if his opponent shook his hand at the end of the game?

Comments?



Funny, how squeamish some people are...I'm a senior citizen. Now, I have no
idea about those open sores, but I do know that lots of older people take a
long time to heal bruises, and thier skin can be easily broken. About the
belching...you mean you never belch? And finally...I pick my nose...but I
never flick the boogers at people, UNLESS...they really **** me off.

(Florida Chess) wrote in message . com...
I witnessed an absolutely disgusting player at the USOPEN:

He was a senior player with all sorts of open wounds on his arms

He constantly picked his teeth (with both hands) and then would touch
the pieces leaving fragments of decaying food/flesh on the pieces and
board

Next he would belch constantly with no effort to stop himself and just
being a spectator many feet away I could smell a very strong, foul
odor

He also found it necesary to constantly pick his nose

I wonder if his opponent shook his hand at the end of the game?

Comments?





Were this player's initials RF, and not an expatriate GM and not as
far as I know in jail or Japan?