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| Feb-19-09 |
| Olavi: Marmot: In the Soviet Union, yes. We don't know what would have happened in a communist country. |
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Feb-19-09
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| blacksburg: wait, what? |
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| Feb-19-09 |
| Olavi: surely you never believed the crap about SU being communist? It only called itself so. It was a fascist dictatorship. |
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| Feb-19-09 |
| FHBradley: <Marmot PFL:> in Soviet Union? Imprisoned for communist agitation, why? |
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Feb-19-09
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| keypusher: <FHBradley: <Marmot PFL:> in Soviet Union? Imprisoned for communist agitation, why?> Ask Leon Trotsky, if you can find a reliable medium. |
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Feb-19-09
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| blacksburg: "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff" - Frank Zappa |
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| Feb-19-09 |
| Jim Bartle: "We''re only in it for the money"--Frank Zappa
"This band is starving, man."--Jimmy Carl Black
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| Mar-11-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: It's a hazy shade of Winter! :) |
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May-13-09
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| Karpova: C.N. 6121 reproduces the Badmaster's article "The Pride and Horror of British Chess" from "Chess Characters", Geneva 1984: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| May-13-09 |
| WhiteRook48: what are you doing out here in the winter? |
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Sep-11-09
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| xenophon: a Clare man I understand |
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Sep-11-09
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| HeMateMe: <Ask Leon Trotsky, if you can find a reliable medium.
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Korchnoi played Trotsky in a round robin, while Lenin took on Hitler. |
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| Sep-11-09 |
| WhiteRook48: well it doesn't look like that |
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Sep-11-09
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| HeMateMe: Cute as a button |
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| Dec-09-09 |
| sciencegirl: Interested to see this post still going. I suppose the woman 'older than himself' mentioned was the one he married. |
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Dec-09-09
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| HeMateMe: Whose weirder, Bob or Bill? |
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Dec-20-09
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| HeMateMe: From a recent Winter column:
‘To checkmate the opponent’s king in chess is equivalent to castrating and devouring him, becoming one with him in a ritual of symbolic homosexualism and cannibalistic communion, thus responding to the remnants of the infantile Oedipus complex.’ I bet he's a fun guy to have at parties! |
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| Dec-20-09 |
| SufferingBruin: <HeMateMe> I've got a friend who wonders why I always resign lost positions. The next time he asks me, I'm reading him that quote. |
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Dec-21-09
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| HeMateMe: <SufferingBruin:> Are you Bobby Orr? |
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| Dec-22-09 |
| sciencegirl: That's a strong quote - where did you get it from again? |
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| Dec-22-09 |
| Jim Bartle: I found this:
In C.N. 559 William Hartston (Cambridge, England) presented this quote from a 1960 paper by Dr Félix Martí Ibáñez: ‘To checkmate the opponent’s king in chess is equivalent to castrating and devouring him, becoming one with him in a ritual of symbolic homosexualism and cannibalistic communion, thus responding to the remnants of the infantile Oedipus complex.’ http://senseis.xmp.net/?RidiculousD... |
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| Dec-22-09 |
| sciencegirl: Ohh, thanks. I wish back issues of CN could be accessed on-line. |
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Dec-22-09
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| Karpova: <HeMateMe: From a recent Winter column:> For sure, but this is William Winter's page. Edward Winter has his own player page... |
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| Dec-22-09 |
| Cibator: To all who've been asking about biographies or biographical sources for Winter: his "Memoirs" were serialised in the UK magazine "Chess" during 1962-63. (I forget the exact dates, and the miserable so-and-so I left my copy with when I emigrated has never seen fit to send it on to me as promised.) They ran over about 8 issues at 2-3 pages a time, making by my estimate a total of some 12,000 words. There were a few games included, one being the win over Nimzowitsch, and a photo or two. No mention in them that I recall of any woman influencing his political activities. The trial (before Mr Justice Avory, a character second only to Lord Goddard in notoriety) got a lengthy and amusing account that gave acute insight into police tactics in the courtroom when prosecuting political cases. Winter conducted his own defence: he'd had legal training and had had to earn his living at the law for a time, until he secured a chess column. In one of the last chapters he took a characteristically severe swipe at C H O'D Alexander (by that time a fairly high-ranking civil servant) for running no fewer than three columns, thus depriving needy would-be chess professionals of some sorely-needed income. (But he gracefully acknowledged Alexander's stature as a player.) Not unexpectedly, the alcohol problem was denied to exist as such. |
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| Dec-23-09 |
| sciencegirl: Yes it is William Winter I'm interested in, or rather his connection with my great grandmother -who I don't think had political affiliations herself. |
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