10-02-2013, 04:19 PM
Hi Andy.
I'm sure any discussion between us or anyone would not sink to a low insulting level.
Two reasons.
You are bigger than me and know where I live.
I have found it is the forum members are the best mods.
If one lad goes over the top then rest of the lads pull him back in
and as the thread goes on all is forgiven as both sides calm down.
Threads that are locked or are pulled then the two parties simmer and it spills
over into another thread that has nothing to do with the original thread.
On the whole we seem to agree that one or two (or three) of the articles are very dodgy.
In My Corner days if I I would have done a Kevin Spraggett spoof.
RHP give me a free rein but I never gone even close to edge that I sometimes trod
with The Corner.
So where were we?
Fischer.
He was suffering from a nervous breakdown, mentally ill, possibly a re-action to the medicine
he was on.
No remorse, I don't think he ever apologised for his outburst.
But there again if he saw the video of it he would most likely not recognise himself and
claim it had been doctored.
I'm no medical man but he was clearly unwell, giving his life to chess took it's toll.
Alekhine.
An opportunist who simply backed the wrong side when at the time it looked like
the right side. Chess had got him out a condemned cell in WWI so Chess (what else could he do)
would make him survive WWII.
He denied writing the articles, then said they were written for him with his name added
then said he did write them because he was told to. etc.etc.
He became a nazi tool, very possibly unaware what was going on in the camps,
many Germans had no idea what was happening.
Nowhere in his articles does he state anything about eliminating the Jewish race,
he just prattled on about how the Jews controlled Chess and other nonsense.
Some claim he knew Chess players thoughout the world would see these articles so
deliberatly mis-spelt names of the players giving a hint he was writing under duress.
I'm not up for that, (it's too clever and risky given the supposed circumstances.)
I'm sure any discussion between us or anyone would not sink to a low insulting level.
Two reasons.
You are bigger than me and know where I live.
I have found it is the forum members are the best mods.
If one lad goes over the top then rest of the lads pull him back in
and as the thread goes on all is forgiven as both sides calm down.
Threads that are locked or are pulled then the two parties simmer and it spills
over into another thread that has nothing to do with the original thread.
On the whole we seem to agree that one or two (or three) of the articles are very dodgy.
In My Corner days if I I would have done a Kevin Spraggett spoof.
RHP give me a free rein but I never gone even close to edge that I sometimes trod
with The Corner.
So where were we?
Fischer.
He was suffering from a nervous breakdown, mentally ill, possibly a re-action to the medicine
he was on.
No remorse, I don't think he ever apologised for his outburst.
But there again if he saw the video of it he would most likely not recognise himself and
claim it had been doctored.
I'm no medical man but he was clearly unwell, giving his life to chess took it's toll.
Alekhine.
An opportunist who simply backed the wrong side when at the time it looked like
the right side. Chess had got him out a condemned cell in WWI so Chess (what else could he do)
would make him survive WWII.
He denied writing the articles, then said they were written for him with his name added
then said he did write them because he was told to. etc.etc.
He became a nazi tool, very possibly unaware what was going on in the camps,
many Germans had no idea what was happening.
Nowhere in his articles does he state anything about eliminating the Jewish race,
he just prattled on about how the Jews controlled Chess and other nonsense.
Some claim he knew Chess players thoughout the world would see these articles so
deliberatly mis-spelt names of the players giving a hint he was writing under duress.
I'm not up for that, (it's too clever and risky given the supposed circumstances.)