Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:28:20 10/31/98
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Hi Larry: Of course support is a very different thing. What the father or Waitskin did does not seems to me being just support. He definitively pushed the poor boy. Do You remember that part of the movie when a teacher talks about the "chess things" and then the faher gets angry and say that the kid will be better in that chess thing a lot more than she will ever be in his craft? The idiot surely believed he had crushed the teacher with that broadside, that he has proved something, but is not the case. The teacher was right. The chess thing was taking too much of the life of the kid and the fact that Waitzskin was going to be better chess player than she will be as a teacher was not relevant. Better to be an average happy boy that an angished chess genius at 8 years old. I love a lot this game but I never considered to put my daughters to play it. I would consider that a painful lose of time in a moment of his lives where another things are a lot more important than to know how to play the Ruy lópez. Waitskin was avictim of an stupid father, one of those guys that are all the time trying to use his children a test of how good they are as a family, a religion or etnic sect or whatever. Fernando
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