Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:19:03 11/26/05
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On November 26, 2005 at 03:12:39, Greg Simpson wrote: >In a thread that was deleted, Mr. Steen accused someone of caissaic dyslexia, This is just a quote from GM Tarrasch, the German medical doctor who once analysed chessic oversights and came to that almost medical conclusion that it might be an attack of that sort. There is nothing, but really NOTHING, offensive in that term. It's a pity that people cant read such obvious vocabulary from chess and that they therefore go on tangents and feel provoked. Tomorrow someone says: What, you called me Rasch or Asch (from Tarrasch), I will complain to the moderation board! The English reader must know that Rasch or better Asch sounds like "a___le" in German. We will soon reach this low, if we dont care and if we dont behave naturally towards witty strangers. >to >which I replied: > >>Who do you think you are, Nigel Short? :-) > >Caissaic is derived from Caissa, the Goddess of chess, but I doubt the word is >well known even here. I certainly had to look it up. > >Even though they share a penchant for sesquipedalian locution (sorry) I am not >convinced Mr. Steen and Mr. Short are one and the same.
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