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Subject: Re: 'Chess-playing duo who made the wrong moves' OT

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:28:10 10/28/02

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On October 28, 2002 at 00:52:13, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On October 27, 2002 at 23:16:02, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>'Chess-playing duo who made the wrong moves'
>>John Allen Muhammed, the prime suspect in the deadly US sniper attacks, spent
>>his evenings quietly playing chess with the boy with whom he was later arrested.
>>This is reported by a number of sources that are looking into the background of
>>the Muhammed and his 17-year-old accomplice John Malvo. Was the henious attack a
>>game of chess for the Beltway Snipers? More
>>
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=568
>
>personally, I don't need a chessbase news ticker

The "logical" conclusion of the story seems to be that "You have to watch
chessplayers."  "They are a bad lot!"  "They all have latent sniper tendencies."
 "Chess is a bad influence."  "The odds are that chess computers just make the
problem worse!"

So much for "logic."

: )

Bob D.

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