IMlday: MM: <didn't a certain GM Yasser concluded the exact opposite from you?> No, this misinformation results from falling for a rhetorical tactic. It was a trap cunningly laid by Ed
Labate. Upon learning an IM would be reviewing the book he quickly circulated an email to titled
players soliciting their opinion on whether the book (the very existence of which he had been adamantly denying) was a hoax. GM Yasser
Seirawan responded logically on the unlikeliness of Fischer writing such a book. By crafty editing of circumstance and definition, Labate was able to create the impression that Yasser's pessimistic prediction was somehow "opposite" to an actual review of the actual book by an IM.
To really be "opposite" the circumstances would have to be equivalent; Yasser would need to be
able to spend two weeks studying the book itself before drawing a conclusion. Otherwise it is
comparing apples and oranges, not opposites.
JustToClarify wrote:
"A good computer program can perform very insightful analysis of chess positions."
I was aware of that.
"This invalidates your "The analysis is so good, it must have been written by Bobby Fischer" argument."
That wasn't my argument. How the computer was used, at what points and to what ends, that is where the artistry is exhibited.
"Your assertion that the analysis could not have been done by a computer..."
You don't seem to have digested what I "asserted" at all.
"...is a subjective impression; many chess players stronger than you, such as Yassir [sic] Seirawan, disagree with this conclusion."
Correcting your misconceptions becomes
tedious.
" Indeed, you are the only international master or
grand master who believes this book to be written by Fischer."
This is the type of trick statement that attempts to elicit information which you do not have. You
know only that I have had a copy for the past half-year. To whom I have lent it, or scanned parts of it, you have no clue; nor to those readers
conclusions regarding the books authorship.
Even if I told you that my opinion was shared by GM XXRedactayevXX and GM
XXIfYouTellThoseLoudMouthSmallMindYankeePotzersM-
yRealNameIllSlitYourThroatovichXX, you could assume I'd made them up.
So, since you don't know, why pretend you do?
"The other stuff which is supposedly secret that only Fischer knew: ..."
My point went totally over your head.
Let me put it in short words.
A forger could safely fake stuff that "only Fischer knew". No one could deny it.
But he could not safely fake stuff that Fischer and somebody else, like Torre, also knew. if it weren't true, then they could deny it.
Your reading comprehension skills appear negligible.
How can I possibly believe you are a wiki editor?
"I'm saying, since you spent good money for this book, your cognitive dissidence has kicked in and
you're emotionally unable to accept you have made an error."
This would be a decent attempt at armchair psychiatry except that the fancy term you're looking for is "cognitive dissonance".
Common folk use "sour grapes"
after Aesop's fox which, unable to jump high enough to reach the grapes, concluded they were probably sour anyway. E.G.-You couldn't get the book; Therefore the book is forged.
<JB> "...the writing style is just so bad, so execrable, and so totally at variance from Fischer's earlier style..."
You're repeating yourself. Fischer's M60MG style was to let Larry Evans
put the text into journalese. Fischer would apparently have preferred Frank Brady to edit M61MG. He didn't have that many friends left who had English as a first language.
"Mr. Day, do you also believe that Trice has NOT written posts using different names?"
Trice's sock puppets are easy to spot. They lack the sophistication of Labate's, like JTC. But personally I don't think either Ed has more than a peripheral relation with the book. And if either or both of them had been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder in would not surprise me at all.
"I see Mr. Day's role as similar to that of a defense lawyer, with Trice as his client."
Only because your view is Tricentric. You know little of the book and much about Trice.
Let me tell you a story:
One night, Nazrudin was on his hands and knees searching for his key in a well light area. Some of his neighbors came to see why Nazrudin was on his hands and knees.
“What are you looking for, Nazrudin?" enquired one of the neighbors.
“My door key.” Came the reply.
The helpful neighbors drop to their hands and knees and joined Nasrudin in his search for the lost key.
After a long unsuccessful search, one of the neighbors asks: “We’ve looked everywhere.
Are you sure you dropped it here?”
Nazrudin answers: “Of course I didn’t drop it here, I dropped it outside my door.”
“Then, why are you looking for it here!”
“Because there’s more light here," responded Nazrudin.
Kibitzing
