in one of his stories he plays his pet kings indian....he asks the arbieter to check if it was the same R in a PP position where gufeld had 2 R's against a Q.....

this story was printed in a newspaper
after which they recieved a mail which read how could she have refused such a great lover and a nice person like gufeld.

i feel it was the same woman who gufeld had proposed in that game.

could u pls give me the source of that story?

damn i dunno how i lost it i guess searching the web is futile as there is nothing about his famous story.

My two favorite accurate Gufeld stories involved my trip to the 1984 World Championship, where I was reporting for the Associated Press and PBS. Though he never admitted it, Gufeld was assigned the task of keeping an eye on me, and his massive bulk was hovering over me most of the time that I filed my phone reports (someone else tailed me when I went up to the AP office, a rotating crew). He fulfilled his assignment by taking me out to lavish dinners and keeping the champagne flowing! Since I had nothing to hide, I just enjoyed the freebies!

This is a serious accusation. I am in no position to judge the relability of the charges, for two reasons. First, I own neither book. Second, while Mr. Winter has a reputation for sticking up for accurate chess history, he also has a reputation for having "favorite enemies", so to speak, with you and Mr. Keene being the two most prominent.

Shakespeare's works are in the public domain, but if I reprint "Hamlet" under my own name without giving credit to Shakespeare as the author, that's plagiarism, even if, legally, I violate nobody's copyright.

Plagiarism has to do with concepts and ideas, not facts. You cannot plagiarize chess positions culled from written material, which were themselves taken from actual games. Schiller appropriately credited them (accuracy notwithstanding) to games, etc.

Winter came up with this nonsense after I proved he lied about George Koltanowski. After threatening my publisher with a lawsuit and being laughed at by the publisher, he chose to make this ridiculous claim, which really doesn't require any response other than to state the obvious.

Many of the positions in the ECM were drawn from publications, and not a single one was credited. Winter is just being silly to cover up his own flaws by trying to divert attention.

Tarrasch and Lasker played two matches. One of them was a world championship match, the other wasn't. However, of course, if Tarrasch had done well in the non-world-championship match (he was soundly beaten) he surely would have had, at least, a claim for another shot at a world championship title match.

I am not a chess historian and have never claimed to be one. I loved listening to Najdorf and Kolty tell tales, even if some of them were a bit tall. My love of chess only extends to how the pieces move about the board. I respect those who wish to research the minutiae, but it just isn't my thing.