Hello,

a) perhaps I should add some specific info to that
"Spassky and antisemitism" - thread I ignited around July 29. 2004 :
in "New in Chess Magazine 5/2004" ther is an interview with former
World Chess Champion
Boris Spassky (p. 30 - 35) .

Some excerpts :

"..our beautiful Jewish Gulag." (B.S. , p. 32 , obviously trying to
put the blame for the
SOVIET Gulag on the Jewish community -- and with a very bad kind
of irony !

"All champions of the world knew the so-called Jewish problem". ;
B.S. , p. 33 ; (???? : what is he talking about ??)

"The first revolutionary government (in Russia , I presume ; CvdV)
was 100 per cent Jewish." ; B.S. , p. 33

Then , on page 34 , he (B.S.) is insinuating that the Jewish people
are selling out all the Russian factories , land , gold .. .

(Unfortunately Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam , doing the interview , is
supporting him :

"You mean the Jewish problem in general." ; DJtG, p. 33 ;
WHAT problem ?!?!


"You just spoke highly of Mischa Tal .. Did you discuss these Jewish
matters with him?" (DJtG , p. 35) ; WHAT matters ??)



"..if you are quite intelligent or quite well-educated, you must know
this problem". (B.S. , p. 33 , obviously meaning
this strange paranoid "Jewish problem" .. )

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Who is worse : Boris Spassky or Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam ?!

Obviously neither B.S. nor DJtG are "quite intelligent or quite
well-educated" .. :

or did DJtG put a trap for Spassky by asking provokative questions
and thus enticing B.S. to talk all this all too well-known
rubbish ?!

in any case :

Shocking to read such disgusting stuff in Jan Timman's magazine :

regards , Claus van de Vlierd

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Claus van de Vlierd wrote:


Unfortunately and sadly enough it seems to be true that

a) Spassky seems to like to talk antisemitic nonsense as he did this
time in an interview of
"New in Chess Magazine 5/2004" , just recently (around July , 20.,
2004) published.

b) the "NIC-Magazine" (Editor in Chief : Jan Timman !) was willing
to print such rubbish.

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Of did I miss something in that interview ?!
was it just a (rather bad !) joke from the side of Spassky resp.
Timman ?!

regards , Claus van de Vlierd