Eric needs not only good wishes, but close supervision, & dietary encouragement as well.

But I am concerned that you, as an English teacher, albeit one in South Central Los Angeles, apparently have such poor comprehension skills.

My message was evidently a magnanimous one, displaying none of the spite that, for instance, Eric spewed forth upon the recent death of Campomanes.

here's my post on page 90..

<wordfunph: here's your post on the death of Campomanes..

<Eric Schiller: An evil man who is not going to be missed. Thoroughly corrupt persecutor of those who wanted chess to move forward. Destroyer of our beloved World Championship. Some champagne with dinner tonight to wish him good riddance!>

now are you happy <Eric Schiller>? your post is sick and no respect to the dead..

may bad karma won't cross your fate <Eric Schiller>..>

bad times for Eric...may Campo rest in peace and forgive Eric for his wicked remarks..

1) I'm not your bro. I think you used the word "bro" as an epithet but one would not want to assume, would one?

2) The "albeit in South Central Los Angeles" line? A condescending touch, spoken like a true conservative.

3) While I appreciate your concern for my comprehension skills, I really think you should clean your own house first.

I love how wingnut conservatives make an outrageous comment (usually an insult) and then raise their hands and say, "who, me?", usually in the midst of making yet another specious if not entirely spacey attack.

Sorry, sis, it didn't even occur to me that you were female.

I'm a guy, friend. Just not your bro.

I am playing online and looking for a new place to live when I get out, as driving will be out of thge question for some time.

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

I don't know when that page was originally published, but it seems to document a particularly egregious case of wholesale plagiarism!

Some excerpts from Winter's essay:

"The Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames (Chess Informant, Belgrade, 1980) was appropriated by Eric Schiller in his volume The Big Book of Combinations (Hypermodern Press, San Francisco, 1994). It is customary for writers of such works to ‘borrow’ widely from each other, but Schiller went far beyond that. He plundered hundreds (many hundreds) of positions, and gave himself away by indiscriminately repeating countless mistakes from the earlier tome. ...
[dozens of examples given]
...
Readers who own the Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames and The Big Book of Combinations will see for themselves that the copying perpetrated by Schiller is so extensive that a series of further exposés of his conduct could easily be written, each with a different set of examples."