Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 07:22:32 10/22/04
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On October 22, 2004 at 08:17:41, GuyHaworth wrote: > >Somewhat off-topic but maybe relevant: > >Tim Krabbe's excellent column diary is at >http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm > >Items 264, 263 and 259 may amuse - and this note is about the last. > > >Tim is wondering if the Larry Evans cover picture is an 'in joke' are actually >an accidental error. > >Any views, especially from people who have the book? > >Guy About this picture he says : "This is the image on the "First day of issue" envelope at the occasion of the Candidates Tournament in Curaçao, 1962. Not only is Black at the bottom, the board's orientation is wrong as well. Note that the diagram cannot have been mirrored unintentionally; Knights never face right in diagrams." I think that it have been mirrored since not only the board is it in the wrong orientation, but the queens and kings are also inverted, so it seem the picture is effectively mirroired. Mathieu Pagé mathieu.page at gmail dot com
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