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Subject: Re: What exactly is meant with the FIDE Motto GENS UNA SUMUS?

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 16:17:14 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 18:35:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>[Readers, please add your opinions if you think that my English is wrong!]
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>If we want to express that we _all_ belong together, beyond all races,
>nationalities then we must take the most genral or abstract term which defines
>our human similarity. And the most common is that we all belong to the human
>race. Without exceptions. And chess always claimed to be a sport for everyone,
>for the whole human race. Ok, a long time in chess we excluded a whole part of
>us, namely the female part of the human race.
>
>Just to explain why we must refer to the term of humanity or mankind or the
>whole human race, I can prove that if we take the term family or a people for
>instance then we always make a claim for a particular group or sample of the
>whole human race. But this way we would exclude many human beings. That would
>contradict that we want to "unite" all human beings.
>
>That is what FIDE means with GENS UNA SUMUS - without exceptions and exclusions.

"Women are weakies"
Bobby Fischer.





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