Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 17:29:38 11/26/05
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On November 26, 2005 at 19:32:49, Greg Simpson wrote: >Thank you for providing a source for the phrase, being a quote from a famous >chess player explains why he would expect such an obscure term to be understood. > You cant be a real chessplayer otherwise you knew what it meant, it's not obscure. _Everybody_ [experts and masters] in chess uses the normally German translation, it's international like zugzwang or kindergarten; the term is "schachblind" [Tarrasch researched it because he was a victim of it against Lasker in a Wch match and he couldn't understand how he could be so blind, above all in a favorable position, where he thought he could win the game!]. All this has something to do with education. We here we have a climate where it seems as if honored testers or ingenious tweakers of program settings defined the common line. You dont seem to know under what pressure A.S. stood after all the insinuations and impolite questions. In that regard his performance was just superb, fabulous. I can't remember a single event where in a chessclub experts of the leading team were titulated with insults like nonsense or loudmouth. Never! Unless perhaps someone was drunken at 2 a.m. in the night. I asked Graham to provide me with one single insult from A.S. And Graham let pass. All he said was that the general idiomatic of A.S. was made to provoke the members here. But even Graham didn't try to claim that A.S. used that speech intentiously and maliciously against his correspondents to provoke them. He knows too many chessplayers who are so "eccentric". I know it better. A.S. simply showed his superior class, also his smartness. But he didn't show any ideosyncrasies. I know what I'm talking about. It's my job. But you are the exception with your questioning. All the others hide themselves in their moleholes out of - - - shame?? >I didn't mean to take a position on whether the comment was offensive or not. >Perhaps I should have found a different word than "accused".
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