And who gives a crap? Do you or do you not feel that he should be allowed to continue to assume fake IDs, slander others, and promote a fradulent work that is both criminal and an insult to Fischer's memory on this site? Or do you think chessgames.com should put a stop to it?

Clip corners from the crown of the head to the ring finger:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/...

<robmtchl> thanks for posting the Encoded Blog link. Ed's code is just a triplicate codon that creates a direct substitution for alphanumerics, the hard part is finding the rule for spacers depending on vowels or consonants. I thought the Encoded Blog might have been a confessional about the book, which is why I decided to solve it. My hunch was right.

http://encodedblog.blogspot.com/
<Can You Read This?
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WHAT AN ENCODED BLOG OFTEN WILL LOOK LIKE. IF YOU CAN READ THIS THEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE USING THE PROGRAMS PROPERLY. - Xenobia

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<ABOUT THE BOOK

As a location/career name, he followed the name of ChicagoBookDealer, which suggests that he was working very closely with Ed Trice.

The user bookappraiser is the one who put up the veryrarebooks website, and the writing style there appears to be Ed's, but you all know that. The hands even gave it away:

Dec 2008, veryrarebooks third photo down from the top: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache...

Here's a close up of Ed's hand taken from Jan 2009:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KQ8DMAfZC...

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Robert Graham Wade was born on the 10th of April 1921 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Awarded the IM title in 1950 he was New Zealand Champion in 1943-44 (after a play-off), 1944-45 and 1947-48.

Looking for greater chess opportunities he went to Europe around 1949 and settled in England. He won the British Championship in 1952 and 1970 and was very active in British chess, training young players and being in charge of the Batsford Chess Library in London.

There is a phrase in both that is oh so similar. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but all things considered...

YouRang forum Jun-08-08

<Ed Trice: I have found the chessvariants.org crowd to be comprised mostly of people who create variants more often than they shower. They just make variant after variant after variant with no real interest in play-testing their creations, nor in doing much more than seeing their name on the internet as having "invented something.">

<Because I patented Gothic Chess, somehow that ruffled their feathers. I was interested in only one variant, which I tested very thoroughly before deciding to make boards & pieces, a software program that plays the game (see http://www.GothicChess.com/vortex.zip for a free version of it) and apply for the patent.>

<<< <"Everyone and their brother"> >> <<<decided that patenting a chess game was a bunch of b.s., and instead of embracing a great game they decided to throw stones at it. Their removal of it is supposed to be some form of retribution.>>>

<So be it. Gothic Chess existed before chessvariants.org, it will exist when they are gone.>

Hoax book:

<<<I notified them that I would be leaving for Tunis. This agitated them even more than the initial withdrawal. <<<I was approached by everyone and their brother now>>>, so it seemed. I feigned disgust over this ordeal, but inwardly they fed my need for something I had not recognized inside myself. After causing the prior set of turbulence, the strange sense of euphoria that I would experience after a crushing victory became attached to me without any of the turmoil of the struggle. The "fuss" became a mild form of "high", but, at the time, I did not recognize what this 'process' was, nor did I even have a faint understanding of it.>>>

There's a patented game on the site called Falcon Chess, by George William Duke. This game is frequently played there, and George Duke is a respected member and regular contributer to the CV pages.

Good find!

I have previously described your quoted passage as being written by a well-educated non-native speaker. I suppose this could also describe, however, the work of someone who has--through self-importance or whatever-- crossed beyond the boundary of their ability to write clear, cogent prose.

I'm curious because you're the only one who supported IMlDay's misjudgment that Bobby wrote the book, using Ed Trice's poll to do so, or were these just more of your games:

<Dude, there are about ten more challenges when you finish with these. Do a good job and as far as I'm concerned, you can call both IMlday *and me* naive fools.

(Next post by) PinnedPiece: Activity continues on the "Is M61MG a Hoax" poll.

http://poll.pollcode.com/jyhU

Mar-12-09
Robert James Fischer

<Riverbeast:> <joshka> <Brady is also convinced 61MG is a hoax.>

<When Trice first approached him>, <he wasn't sure....But Brady said he refused to help market the book, because he didn't think Fischer would want him to (Fischer and Brady had a falling out, mostly over Brady's own biography of Fischer).>

<But now that all the evidence is in, he doesn't doubt it's fake.>

Now this Ed Trice post:

<Jan-25-08>
<Robert James Fischer>

<Ed Trice: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt...;

<You will read:>

<EVANS ON FISCHER IN MARCH CHESS LIFE>

<I was told that GM Larry Evans has cracked the mystery of who wrote Fischer's MY 61 MEMORABLE GAMES.>

<Posted by: Larry Parr at January 18, 2008 10:23>

<Also, on the same page, further down:>

<Dr. Frank Brady -- interviewed this morning.>

<http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/20...;

<<Brady says that one of Fischer's people approached>> <Brady about helping with "My 61 Memorable Games".>

<There are many sources identifying and/or speculating about people from several different countries combining efforts regarding this book. Frank brady was contacted by someone in Iceland, Larry Parr has reason to believe Eugene Torre was involved as well, and Evans knows the definitive answer.>

<Amazingly, some of you that post here that know far less claim to know more than all of them. This was far more complex than anyone has originally thought. But, to say there was no such book just seems very unlikely.>

From the NY Times Jan 18, 2008:

<Frank Brady A: What’s odd is that he sort of sent word to me about two weeks ago.>

<[ Dr. Brady explained that he had given a lecture at the Marshall Chess Club on West 10th Street in Manhattan, and a video of the lecture was posted on YouTube. In response,> <a friend of Mr. Fischer's called Dr. Brady and asked him if he would help Mr. Fischer with a project: reissuing and updating his book, "My 60 Memorable Games," to be called "My 61 Memorable Games."> ]

<Frank Brady: This friend asked me if I would help, and I said that I don’t think that Bobby wants my help.>

Does anyone know why Ed Labate is banned?

One of Fischer's people?

<Frank brady was contacted by someone in Iceland>

And your conclusion was Trice was one of Fischer's people from Iceland?

You're top notch at fereting out information but that post shows some weaknesses as far as proper interpretation.

My post about someone crossing the boundary of their skill level had <ET> in mind rather than <BF>. Suggestion that Watai took notes? How interesting. But not my idea. I have suggested that if Fischer needed an aide in the publishing venture, his wife would have done admirably-- no need to turn to a complete outsider, if that's what happened.

My problem all along from the very first has been the gang of judge and jury insiders, accusing and castigating <Trice>...to me, all equivalent mentalities (j'accuse), so how to choose the right facts?

The poll has always been, for me, a way to more accurately gauge popular sentiment. Prior to that, all I was getting was continual hysterical blasts from about six people on the Fischer page.

My knowledge of 1) chess, 2) Fischer, 3)published chess literature, 4)annotation methods, 5) contents of the M61MG--are EACH ONE inferior to IMLday's. So until I can top him in any of those respects, I shall maintain respect of his judgement, though I continue to research. That is not true of all kibitzers here.

I haven't received many good answers to the questions I posed, nor can I produce them....e.g. why would someone who was interested in promoting their own kind of chess spend ANY TIME AT ALL on an old work that has been reworked already? You must resort to statements like "<Ed Trice> is a con man, fool, and antisocial misfit" to make your answer work.

Why wouldn't he do his own analysis--if he felt he could do that good a job with a computer and historical notes, e.g. fool Dan Heissman or whoever--and publish under your own name? Isn't that what an egomaniac would do? The apparent truth is, on the face of it, the evidence is still in favor of a project/association that splintered and went wrong, and in the end came totally apart.

Games? Well, I'm not comparing fingernails. To each his own.