You'd think Trice would be a little more careful in his skullduggery.

Old story: Things hadn't been going well for a former NBA center, seven-footer Reggie Harding, so he put on a ski mask, went to the neighborhood liquor store and demanded the owner give him the money in the register.

Owner: "Come on, Reggie, don't do this."

Reggie: "It's not me, man."

Can anybody answer my question above?...

Gothic chess is not an original idea, so how could it have an inventor?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/edtrice

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-tric...

He claims to be the president of "Four Incorporated" that he claims "Currently employ 14 people in 3 different states as independent contractors in the Information Technology sector"

<Ed Trice’s Groups:
IEEE, United States Chess Federation, Mensa >

Trice is many things: Delusional, no inter-personal skills to speak of, no empathy or care about anyone besides himself, and infamous on the internet, but he might just be smart enough to qualify for Mensa membership.

You don't need to be anything close to a genius to join Mensa, despite it's reputation.....A reasonably high score on standardized tests such as the SAT are enough to qualify one for membership.

And chess strength doesn't necessarily equate to intelligence....Einstein was not a very strong chessplayer either, and there are a lot of good chessplayers that are not particularly accomplished in other fields of intellect.

The question of the authorship of the original manuscript is not related to Ed Trice, neither his layout and possibly pirate printing, nor his involvement in publicity, distribution efforts etc. Those are separate issues from original authorship.

If Ed Trice had tried using a computer to disguise himself as Bobby Fischer then the trick would be easy to spot for any master reading it who was looking for evidence. I looked for it. It is not there. Forgery by Trice is an untenable fanciful theory that is refuted by the manuscript itself.

Among gaping holes in the theory I have already given the example of the donkey at Sousse. "chancho" regularly replies that the donkey's existence is mentioned in Frank Brady's book. Fine, but the M61MG author explains why the donkey was useful. That information is not in Brady's book. Why would a forger include such irrelevant information which, were it incorrect, would expose himself to refutation by any other surviving player from the tournament?

Similarly, a line like "I analysed this position in 1994 with Eugene Torre". Why would a forger put in something that GM Torre could simply say: "No I didn't" and the ruse be exposed? Likewise, he describes private conversations, e.g. with Dimitrije Bjelica or Zita Raiczanyi. Surely a forger would simply avoid writing things which could be proven false by the others involved.

The forgery theory necessitates that the forger was hopelessly incompetent, easily giving himself away. In that case, according to the theory, I must be an idiot not to have noticed. But I'm not an idiot.

Another inconsistency for those who think Ed Trice forged this book: Obviously Ed is a shameless self-promoter, so how could he resist putting his name in somewhere?

And, good grief, why would he forgo proof-reading and rush to the ebay auction before Bobby Fischer's demise? How did he know that Fischer himself would not publicly state that the book was a forgery?

There is a very obvious occam answer: Because it is not a forgery.

Therefore "My 61 Memorable Games is dead" seems to be an overly hasty judgment.

1.How do you explain Ed Trice accusing Ed Labate of being the person behind the book scam M61MG back in Dec 2007, but later on Trice says that the book was really written by Bobby Fischer? Why did he do that? And for what purpose?

2. Why would Einar Einarsson step forward and say Fischer did not write the book?

What did Einarsson have to gain by doing this?

3. Why was Ed Trice saying in this forum that he saw 5 copies of M61MG in the bookstore Chess4less, and that he bought two of the copies, and later Greg Yanez and Bill Goichberg approached him, with Yanez asking Trice why he was saying in the internet that the books were in his bookstore, and Bill Goichberg telling Trice to put the books away?

4.Why does Ed Trice keep talking about the book every chance he gets, touting your expertise, and review of the book, when again, he accused Ed Labate of being Helgi, and the architect of the bookscam at Ebay auction ?

5.And where do you think he actually got the books he said he bought at the bookstore? Here's the youtube video from the 2009 World Open:

Do you honestly find it well written? Even monstrosities like this from p. 735? "...each player has roughly the same level of Kingside resources distributed relatively suitably for the position, and Queenside has the appearance of defensibility, though in a state of pending liquidation. Such a static summary is shattered by the strategic maneuver I was about to undertake with the Knight."

You say there is no evidence that Trice wrote the text of "61." You've written that the style of Trice's Gothic chess annotations is not similar to those of "61." I find them extremely similar, strikingly so. I find it evidence that Trice wrote it.

Mr. Day, do you also believe that Trice has NOT written posts using different names? I think it takes willful blindness not to see that. (Of course, that's not evidence of forgery, but it does raise questions.) Check the post by "shoelaces," his very first post (!), and tell me you don't think Trice had anything to do with it.

Once, in fact, to a comment posted by me. Are you asking him to re-post the same info?

Let me look it up...

M61MG Wrestler chessforum

Haven't you since posted that one of the publishers has released their control of their claim to copyright on the Fischer continuations in M60MG, or something like that? (I'm being sloppy here expressly to invite you to correct the misapprehension).

If that's the case, can you see that their action OUGHT to have some effect on a LEGITIMATE M61MG--if there were such a thing? Yet still no announcement by the supposed inner circle. You would think that even if a grey-colored scam, Trice could have convinced someone (Fischer's wife) by now of the potential rewards of validating the book.

Hasn't happened.