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!] > > >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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