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| Sep-11-09 | | xenophon: a Clare man I understand |
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Sep-11-09
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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
| | 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
| | HeMateMe: Whose weirder, Bob or Bill? |
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Dec-20-09
| | 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
| | 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 | | 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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| Feb-18-10 | | Tumshie: Sciencegirl, I asked a question about his memoirs way back in November 2005 and was unable to get a copy until a friendly newspaper chess columnist was able to send me copies in (I think) PDF file form. I would be happy to forward copies to you if I knew how, but I'm afraid I am even worse with computers than with endgames. |
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| Mar-06-10 | | sciencegirl: That's alright Tumshie, but thanks for the (sort of) offer! William (Billy) married my great grandmother (but I am descended from her first marriage) and my father knew him quite well. I think they had a good time for a few years but things didn't last and there was another woman later as well. My grandmother was Molly - did Winter mention anything about his personal life in his memoirs I wonder? I think they may have kept the relationship secret to keep the allowance coming in from Barrie. |
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| Aug-09-11 | | Antiochus: 208 games of William Winter are here:
http://www.phileo.demon.co.uk/uk_br... |
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| Nov-19-11 | | EBB: Tumshie I would very much like to have copies of those pdfs re Billy Winters. It is very easy to attach these to email. Can I contact you? |
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| Dec-20-11 | | AlphaMale: If <V is for Vendetta>, W is for Winter. |
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Apr-16-12
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is a Winter victory that I have just uploaded to the database: [Event "1935 BCF-ch"]
[Site "Great Yarmouth"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "William Winter"]
[Black "Stanley Clifford Davey"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 f5 2. g3  f6 3.  g2 e6 4. h3 e7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4  e8 7. c3 d8 8. b3 c6 9. d5 e5 10. dxe6 dxe6 11. e3 a6 12.  ad1 c6 13. f4  h8 14. c5 g8 15. e3 b8 16. c2 b6 17. a3 b7 18. d2 e5 19. b3 xg2 20. xg2 g5 21. d3 c6+ 22. e4 eg4 23. b2 xe4 24. b4 b7 25. xe4+ f6 26. h3 e5 
click for larger view27. d5 g7 28. xg5 exd5 29. xf5 dxc4+ 30. f3 1-0 Source: CHESS, Vol 1, No 1, 14 September 1935 |
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| May-12-12 | | Diocletian: "Kings of Chess" was my first good chess book, and it remains one of my favorites. In the book Winter annotates games from the world championship matches, presenting them in chronological order with detailed historical introductions and biographies for each match. As a child chess beginner, I was fascinated by the well written accounts of the matches and descriptions of the great players. While most informative on the diverse personalities and exploits of the champions and their challengers, the book never offered a clue as to Winter's own proclivities or politics, neither of which I would criticize. |
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| Sep-11-12 | | Nosnibor: <sciencegirl> With regard to your post on 10th March 2010 I can tell you that William did mention your great grandmother Molly in his memoirs.These are given in his memoirs in the "Chess" magazine vol.28 no.423(New Year 1963 edition).I quote some extracts here."I climbed what seemed miles of dark rickety staircase,knocked on a door,and saw Molly for the first time."(This would be in 1921)Under a subheading called Love he writes "Somehow Molly was different. I am no hand at portraying sentimental emotions and do not intend to try here.Suffice it to say that after our first meeting we wanted too see one another again,and after several such we decided to be together always.There was no objection on the part of Molly`s husband,(Dennis Garrett)who had a Kathleen of his own,and seemed rather grateful to me for taking his wife off his hands,while the fact that we could not get married did not matter two hoots.In those days we cosidered marriage to be a bourgeois anachronism, and indeed I have little use for it even now,except in so far it provides a living for the Junior Bar-I shudder to think of the fate of freshly called barristers if the supply of divorce cases dried up.Ways and means for Molly and me presented a problem.The Hampden club was for men only and I could not change my address without awkward questions from my people" He goes onto say that Sir James Barrie did eventually after two months find out about the liason and he was issued with an ultimatum to give up Molly or lose his allowance.He chose to stay with your great grandmother.He gave up his career in the legal professiom and became a public speaker and writer while Molly obtained casual work machining handbags.I hope that this is of interest to you. |
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| Dec-12-12 | | ami: Wow, thank you Nosnibor, I really had no idea that he had written all this about himself and Molly. Molly's husband died later and then the couple did marry. |
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Feb-25-13
 | | Conrad93: That profile image is just way too cool. |
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