Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 10:01:32 02/23/99
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This may very well be true. Nunn & Burgess did not use the same high standards of improving orriginal works. That is, putting the addendums' & analytical side notes at the bottom of the page, which was used in the Keres, Alekhine, Capablanca & other recent works by Nunn especially. As far as Fischer right(s) to his own manuscript are concerned, I think we need to here from an attorney, or someone more in the know about the situation on expired copyrights. From what I have heard/read, there was an effort by Bastsford to contact Fischer regarding his royalties, and even desire by them to see if Fischer wanted to put imput into this new volume. As usaul Fischer did not ever reply to them. He may well have claimed that they never actually contacted him, but as we know Fischer has never made it very easy for anyone to contact him, even when it could have done him a lot of good! So again I have little sympithy for him on this matter. If he keeps 'getting ripped off', it is because he is not willing to pay competent legal representitives' to represent his civil liberties. It is known that he is very unwilling to sign contracts, and like many GM's, only thinks about what he is getting in business, not with why business people would want to be involved with him. (To make money of course!). It is no wonder Fischer hasn't done anything, but have an illegal match with Boris Spassky in the last 27 years. And that a match where Fischer was rather unconcerned with who was running it, and what kind of War and attrocities were happening around him. Again, as far as his stuff is concerned, we have not heard all the facts about this. Fischer claims he paid his atorney a certain amount of money per year to look after these interest. This is Fischer's side. But based on what we know about Fischer, it is very likely that he owed money for a long time, and/or that he was not reachable to make the crucial decision about what the legal entities should do. As you know, if you don't pay your rent, you eventually wind up being evicted; the rental corporation does not care a whit about who you are & what you achieved in you life. And of course they don't care what was in you apartment either. They use well established legal methods to clear out that apartment (In Fischer's case, Safe and/or storage facility), and dispence with what was in there so that they can rent to someone else. Like everyone else, I await more of the actual facts about this issue. And it does not make me anymore caring for Fischer that he spouts all this vitrolic hatred every time he speaks. Clearly, he is not dealing in the reality of the every day world... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On February 23, 1999 at 05:50:38, bishopg wrote: >On February 22, 1999 at 18:29:19, Michael Ginat wrote: > >>On February 22, 1999 at 07:07:37, bishopg wrote: >> >>>I agree that Fischer seems somewhat paranoid, but it sounds as if his charges >>>are not exactly groundless. At least Torre, who has some first hand testimony >>>to the facts, appears to side with Bobby. Maybe when you're reading over his >>>games and you think negatively of BF, you should also question the integrity of >>>the publisher. >> >>I haven't listened to all his charges - would you care to enlighten me on which >>of them "are not exactly groundless"? >> >>Also, I don't see your point on reading over his games...integrity of the >>publisher. >> >>Michael Ginat > > >Torre and Fischer make reference to "What Batsford did with My 60 Memorable >games" but didn't elaborate. Fischer also ranted about the Bobby Fischer >teaches chess CD. I remember these being mentioned specifically. I took them >to be saying that these are unauthorized works in which they use the name of BF >for gain and he is left out. Whatever he implies or charges, Torre definitely >sided with BF if you listened to the last part of the interview after Fischer >was off of the line. Torre said it's a tragedy that people only react to the >vulgar language of Fischer and say nothing about the travesty of justice >perpetrated on Fischer. > >The charge harped on the most was that they auctioned off his personal belonging >in storage because they say he did not pay a $480 bill. > >Fischer's right in that it would have been preposterous for him to not have paid >a $80 bill when he has obviously spent thousands for the best storage safe and >room on valuables worth millions (his estimate). I believe he's telling the >truth there. > >I in no way defend BF in his racist remarks. However, I do believe he has been >exploited because he can't return to the U.S. to defend himself.
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