Hurricane Carter was tried twice for the triple murder in Paterson, and found guilty twice.

Ultimately, a New Jersey Supreme Court judge set aside his second conviction and ordered him freed.

He moved to Canada.

He has not officially been pardoned-- therefore he has no legal grounds to sue the State of New Jersey, nor has he tried.

He wrote an autobiography claiming he was innocent.

Dylan was convinced of his innocence.

In fact, however, the "historical jury" is still out on whether or not Hurricane "did the deed."

The preponderance of criminological studies lean towards the idea that it was likely he actually did the crime.

Public opinion, however, influenced by the Dylan song, Carter's autobiography, and most recently, the Denzel Washington film vehicle, is almost uniformly in favor of the idea that Hurricane was innocent.

So in terms of "clearing his name"-- well, that is ambiguous, both in a legal and a colloquial sense.

I have read scads of websites concerning the evidence, the judicial history, and I've also read his autobiography.

I think he's probably guilty.

However, I love the Dylan song.

Strangely, I think Hurricane's guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the quality and even importance of Dylan's composition.

Now <Hattie Carroll>: she was beaten to death for sure by her employer, who got off scott free.

However, in Canada, people often say "I'm feeling a tad Polish today."

At least they say this in my imagination.

'Chess is a highly structured exercise which may also serve as a mode of perception and a metaphor for life.

'A moire, on its own, is undifferentiated, integrated, and chaotic: it is the observer who plucks it to pieces to find the structures it conceals. ... Our perceptual paranoia, engulfed in a rage to order, transforms caries into cabals, sees chessboards where there is only moire.'

<Jess> Trivia: who was <The Painless Pole>?

<mack> Crikey. Didn't anyone tell him that 'moire' has an accent on the 'e'?

"He approaches life as he does the chessboard: the gambits fascinate him without leading him to imagine that there is a meaning behind it all which might make it necessary for him to believe in something."

- Hans Richter, Dada: Art and Anti-art, 1964

btw -- today's CG quote of the day, from Alex Baburin, is a little embarrassing. He says he could not respect anyone who plays in the same boring style as himself. I, er, crawlingly told Baburin that I aspired to doing exactly that.

Now if I could only stop hearing that tune in my head.

"They bite, they scratch, they make an awful fuss. It's no use stroking them and saying Puss, Puss, Puss".

"This is the story of the Hurricane
Who bit and scratched and made an awful fuss
In Paterson New Jersey that's hard to explain
You might get a sock in the puss."

No, wait, that's from <Don't Put the Cat in the Washing Machine, Mother, You might get a sock in the Puss>.

One small detail. I assume White's 27th move was actually 27.Rc6 rather than 27.Rc7, which seems excessively dadaist even for MD.

Thanks again. I'll be intrigued to see what post-1942 Duchamp games you've got, as all the main databases and biogs fade out in the mid-1930s.

The *other* MD -- <mack> -- had suggested I look for your advice. I should have listened to him sooner.

Michael Douglas?! Oh right- Me, Duh.

Have to say that a collection of Duchamp's chessy French letters is too great an idea not to be pursued. As you said before, there must be loads of old correspondence games lying around somewhere; where are the Duchamp archives, for that matter?

It's 100000000 in binary notation, or 100 in hexadecimal.

256 = (2^2)^(2^2) = [(2^2)^2]^2