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[Event "Team match"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/"]
[Date "2012.02.22"]
[Round "-"]
[White "tomamiron"]
[Black "keypusher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1874"]
[BlackElo "1884"]

I haven't studied it closely, but the particular form of discrimination or affirmative action or whatever you want to call it at issue in this Texas case is differs in details from the plan in Bakke (1978) or the two plans at issue in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003).

Not sure how much it differs in result. As far as I know, you get limited black and Hispanic enrollment at most elite colleges and graduate schools unless you discriminate aggressively in black and Hispanic students' favor.

[Event "League division C3"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=177..."]
[Date "2012.06.14"]
[Round "-"]
[White "keypusher"]
[Black "glennobrien"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1945"]
[BlackElo "1938"]
[TimeControl "1/259200"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "normal"]

I want to ask you if I can quote you from this post- I'd like to include parts of it in a documentary I'm making about <Alexander Alekhine>.

<Jan-10-05
<<<keypusher:>>> For what it's worth, I suspect Alekhine was a lifelong "mild" anti-Semite who found it advantageous to be outrageously anti-Semitic during World War II. Hence the articles. He knew far too much about chess to believe the nonsense in those articles, and I am sure the respect he gave Lasker, Rubinstein et al. as chessplayers before the war was perfectly genuine.

I don't know of any real evidence (apart from his own post-war pleading, which I am not inclined to credit) that he was compelled to write the articles. (Certainly he wasn't compelled to mention that Kmoch's wife was Jewish!) Euwe and Keres, among others, spent the war in Nazi Europe and didn't do anything of the sort. Even Bogolyubov, who seemed to like the Nazis quite a lot, didn't do anything like that as far as I know.

<I want to ask you if I can quote you from this post- I'd like to include parts of it in a documentary I'm making about <Alexander Alekhine>.>

Problem with the quote is that it is not quite correct! <I don't know of any real evidence (apart from his own post-war pleading, which I am not inclined to credit) that he was compelled to write the articles.>

Actually, Alekhine never said that he was compelled to write the articles.

In February 1945 he claimed that he had to write the <Pariser Zeitung> articles in order to get an exit visa to Portugal, from where he planned to go to America. In the same interview he claimed that the articles were rewritten by the Nazis.

In a December 6, 1945 letter to Hatton-Ward, (who had canceled his invitation to the London tournament), Alekhine contradicted this earlier account by stating that "In these articles, which appeared in 1941 during my stay in Portugal, and which became known to me in Germany as reproduced in the Deutsche Schachzeitung, there is <nothing written by me>" [this last phrase in italics].

I would use part of your quote for a few reasons. First, it's what I would say to sum up this topic in my documentary. However, in my view it's better if someone else says it. You've already been established in the <Rubinstien> documentary as "American chess expert Scott Thompson." That's a factual statement, based on your own estimation of your rating and playing strength through your career.

I want my script for this documentary to be as "factual" as possible, I want to present facts that are backed up by reliable primary sources, corroborated where possible. I don't really want to be the person to supply opinion or analysis, I want to leave that up to the viewer. But interesting and sound analysis by others, such as yourself, is part of the factual record of experts assessing Alekhine. And that's why I want to quote you.

In particular, your characterization of Alekhine's pre-war anti-Semitism as "mild"- that's what I think too. Oddly, some, including Pablo Moran, believe that Spielmann's "J'Accuse" is proof of Alekhine's anti-Semitism. This is particularly odd in the case of Pablo Moran, given that in the same book (Alekhine-Agony of a Chess Genius>, he also publishes an article by Helms in which the Berne Tournament organizer <Herr Raaflaub> categorically states that Alekhine had nothing whatsoever to do with Spielmann and Nimzowitsch not being invited to that particular tournament.

However, there a few quotes and anecdotes from the pre-war era that do suggest some anti-Semitism. In his chess writing Alekhine was often fulsome in his praise of strong Jewish masters, including Lasker, but a darker side seemed to slip out now and again. Most notoriously, perhaps, is Max Euwe's recollection from an October, 1981 interview, about Alekhine's one and only victory over Lasker at Zurich, 1934. According to Euwe, Alekhine "said something like <The Jew has had another lesson!>."

In addition, I share your admiration for Alekhine as a chess writer. Not just an analyst, but an invaluable, and accurate, in my view, chess historian.

At any rate, I'd be happy to use part(s) of your post.

Of course, it might take another year to finish the documentary.