Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

That would lose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Ivan" wrote in message
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Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

"Harry Haller" wrote in message
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That would lose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Ivan" wrote in message
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Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

Kinda like banning the display of the Confederate flag at southern capitols,
huh?

Regards,

Matt

No, not at all actually. Leningrad has a proud history. Redneck racism and
the Confederacy does not.

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Matt Nemmers" wrote in message
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"Harry Haller" wrote in message
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That would lose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Ivan" wrote in message
om...
Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

Kinda like banning the display of the Confederate flag at southern
capitols,
huh?

Regards,

Matt

All depends on who you ask, apparently.......

Regards,

Matt

"Harry Haller" wrote in message
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No, not at all actually. Leningrad has a proud history. Redneck racism and
the Confederacy does not.

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Matt Nemmers" wrote in message
news:qHemc.29429$IG1.1323789@attbi_s04...
"Harry Haller" wrote in message
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That would lose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?

--
HH
'What goes around comes around'.
-- Robert J. Fischer


"Ivan" wrote in message
om...
Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

Kinda like banning the display of the Confederate flag at southern
capitols,
huh?

Regards,

Matt

(Ivan) wrote in message . com...
Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

Should the 'Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack'
(1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 g6 6 Be3 Bg7 7 Qd2 Nc6 8 f3 O-O
9 Bc4) be renamed as the 'Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation,
Serbian-Montenegrin Attack'? :-)

--Nick

post in rec.games.chess.politics ;o)

"Ivan" wrote in message
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Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

"Matt Nemmers" wrote in
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"Harry Haller" wrote in
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That would lose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?

"Ivan" wrote in
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Shouldn't this opening be renamed to the
Dutch Defense, St. Petersburg variation ?

Kinda like banning the display of the Confederate flag at southern capitols,
huh?

Mr Nemmers, I recently had a conversation with a German woman from
(of all places) Nuernberg (or Nuremberg). As far as I could tell,
she (like nearly all young Germans of my acquaintance) seemed entirely
anti-Nazi and sincerely anti-racist. I doubt that she has any regrets
about the fact that the flag of the Third Reich (which pertains to an
important period of German history) is no longer being officially displayed
in public at home.

She (who was born after 1945), evidently like most Germans, disapproves
of the United States military occupation of Iraq. I suspect that she would
not mention, however, what she believes to apparently 'flag-waving' Americans
because they could 'respond' in this way: 'You Nazis committed much worse
crimes. Therefore, the United States always must be above any criticism
from you!' Perhaps many Americans even believe that's a sound argument.

--Nick

"Harry Haller" wrote in
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No, not at all actually. Leningrad has a proud history.

Mr Haller, I doubt that Dmitri Shostakovich's 1941 'Leningrad Symphony'
should be renamed as the 'St Petersburg Symphony' because that would
remove the historical context from what the Leningraders suffered (perhaps
one million or more of them died) during the epic 900-day long siege of
their city by the Germans.

For further reading:
'The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad' by Harrison Salisbury
'The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944' by David Glantz

Redneck racism and the Confederacy does not.

As far as I know, Robert E. Lee's birthday is (or was) celebrated as
an official holiday in some Southern states in the United States.

For further reading:
'Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War'
by Tony Horwitz

--Nick

Nick wrote:

"Harry Haller" wrote in
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No, not at all actually. Leningrad has a proud history.

Mr Haller, I doubt that Dmitri Shostakovich's 1941 'Leningrad Symphony'
should be renamed as the 'St Petersburg Symphony' because that would
remove the historical context from what the Leningraders suffered (perhaps
one million or more of them died) during the epic 900-day long siege of
their city by the Germans.

For further reading:
'The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad' by Harrison Salisbury
'The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944' by David Glantz

I too like Harrison E Salisbury's book, but the following should be noted:
"Authoritative and vivid account, bitterly assailed by Soviet critics" from
page 651 of "The Road To Berlin", by John Erickson. All that cannibalism,
my impression was that he was also a tad too kind to Voroshilov.

Incidentally, many RGCM participants seem to bring up WWII, particularly the
European theatre, but are apparently unaware of the relative importance of
the Eastern Front. Here is what John Erickson wrote in the preface to the
aforementioned book: "out of the grand total of Germany's losses of
13,600,000 killed, wounded, missing and made prisoner, Soviet military
statisticians reckon that no less than 10,000,000 met a grim fate on the
Eastern Front."


Regards

Simon.