I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The point
was that he played chess and not people.

Wilma

In article k.net,
"Wilma" wrote:

I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The point
was that he played chess and not people.


I thought the guy was just being a racist :-)

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

I think that was Rubinstein.
---
"Harold Buck" wrote in message
...
In article k.net,
"Wilma" wrote:

I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it
was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.


I thought the guy was just being a racist :-)

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Wilma wrote:
I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The point
was that he played chess and not people.

It just might be more to it that that.

He could have been playing Adolf Schwarz. If the event was Vienna 1882
(or perhaps even Graz 1880), the player who made that announcement might
even have been Weiss.

It works much better in German ...

--
Anders Thulin http://www.algonet.se/~ath

"Wilma" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.

Wilma



This page attributes it to Rubinstein (just short of 2/3rds of the way
down).

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/quotes.html

-T

LOL. If he said it in here, he'd be flamed.
Wilma

"Harold Buck" wrote in message
...
In article k.net,
"Wilma" wrote:

I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it
was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.


I thought the guy was just being a racist :-)

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Yes! That rings a bell. I think you're right.
Wilma

"MC" wrote in message
...
I think that was Rubinstein.
---
"Harold Buck" wrote in message
...
In article k.net,
"Wilma" wrote:

I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master
of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it
was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.


I thought the guy was just being a racist :-)

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Quite so. Coulda been.
Wilma

"Anders Thulin" wrote in message
...
Wilma wrote:
I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it
was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.

It just might be more to it that that.

He could have been playing Adolf Schwarz. If the event was Vienna 1882
(or perhaps even Graz 1880), the player who made that announcement might
even have been Weiss.

It works much better in German ...

--
Anders Thulin http://www.algonet.se/~ath

Aha! That's it.
Wilma

"skoonj" wrote in message
...

"Wilma" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I read it somewhere and can't find it again. Somebody asked a master of
yesteryear, I think it was, who he was playing that night. Whoever it
was
said, "Tonight I'm playing against black," or something like that. The
point
was that he played chess and not people.

Wilma



This page attributes it to Rubinstein (just short of 2/3rds of the way
down).

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/quotes.html

-T