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| RMille9601 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| Five months ago I sent an article for publication “Five US Opens” to the
Editor of CHESS LIFE. I enclosed a self-addressed, stamped, envelope. He did
NOT respond.
I wrote the Editor twice more without a response.
I then wrote to William Goichberg about this.
I sent Goichberg a story for publication: The Mind Reader.
I did not receive a response.
I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a response.
USCF offers 20 copies of CHESS LIFE if purchaser will pay postage. However, the
postage is $20.00 in some zip codes and $40.00 in other. This appears to be a
mistake. MEDIA MAIL postage is the same in all ZIP codes. MEDIA MAIL: $1.42
first pound $.42 each pound more - Books, DVD’s, CD’s, Manuscripts, videos,
Sound Recordings.
I wrote Goichberg about this and did not receive a response.
The United States Chess Federation is run by incompetent, irresponsible,
stupid, inept, imbeciles.
The Editor, Kalev Pehme, is a moron who publishes insulting, putrid, disgusting
crap.
Larry Evans column in October issue is one of worst I have ever seen. He gives
horrible, gory details of a brutal murder.
You should write Evans and protest.
James Schroeder, 3011 E. 9th St. Apt 15, Vancouver WA 98661-4869 phone
360-258-9401
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| Mike Nolan 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) writes:
quote:
>Five months ago I sent an article for publication “Five US Opens” to the
>Editor of CHESS LIFE. I enclosed a self-addressed, stamped, envelope. He did
>NOT respond.
>I wrote the Editor twice more without a response.
I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish it.
Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either.
Bastards!
--
Mike Nolan
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| Jane Adams 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| Nice try Mike.
Hugh Hefner wasn't running a not for profit, members corporation, whose
mission is to promote Chess.
Hef was promoting Chest!
Jane
http://users.lvcm.com/jadams
"Mike Nolan" <nolan@gw.tssi.com> wrote in message
news:ckpn4k$ioh$1@gw.tssi.com...
quote:
> rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) writes:
>
the[vbcol=seagreen]
did[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish
it.
quote:
>
> Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either.
>
> Bastards!
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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| Bill Smythe 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| "Mike Nolan" wrote:
quote:
> I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish
it.
quote:
> .... Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either. ....
When I was eleven years old I sent a joke to the Weekly Reader. They didn't
publish it.
It's a tough world all around.
Bill Smythe
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| Locked Room 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) wrote in message news:<20041015191732.27265.00002590@mb-m03.aol.com>...
quote:
> Five months ago I sent an article for publication âFive US Opensâ to the
> Editor of CHESS LIFE. I enclosed a self-addressed, stamped, envelope. He did
> NOT respond.
> I wrote the Editor twice more without a response.
> I then wrote to William Goichberg about this.
> I sent Goichberg a story for publication: The Mind Reader.
> I did not receive a response.
> I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a response.
quote:
> James Schroeder, 3011 E. 9th St. Apt 15, Vancouver WA 98661-4869 phone
> 360-258-9401
I can tell you why no one is likely to respond to you, if you really
care to know, or if you are capable of understanding when told. The
reason is simple. You are known in U.S. chess circles as a LUNATIC
second only to Haji Ismail Mohammed oSAMa Sloan. It's true the chess
world is bursting at the seams with kooks, but you and oSAMa are the
Kook Kings of Chess. All the others are just pretenders.
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| Doctor SBD 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines, lets
authors know that materials have been received, and so on. They may not choose
to publish you, but you do not want to tick off the community that supplies
your articles. I have not written a lot in the chess community, but I have
nearly 1000 articles in my professional field of expertise, so I know a thing
or two about editors. This is NOT the same thing as sending a joke to Playboy,
although Pehme might like to transform CL into the next Playboy.
I know one author who is well-published in the chess community who has not been
able to get Pehme to send him the guidelines for authors (essential for a
magazine like CL) for over a year, despite SASEs, multiple emails, etc.
Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.
It is like everything else with USCF - no accountability. "Send us your money
and we will rate some games and send you the crappiest chess magazine in the
world" should be their motto.
SBD
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| Parrthenon 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| Whenever Mr. Schroeder has an interesting item to contribute, it seems to pop
up in Larry Evans On Chess. Some people feel that the gent gets more space than
he deserves in Chess Life.
<<James Schroeder, 3011 E. 9th St. Apt 15, Vancouver WA 98661-4869 phone
360-258-9401
I can tell you why no one is likely to respond to you, if you really
care to know, or if you are capable of understanding when told. The
reason is simple. You are known in U.S. chess circles as a LUNATIC
second only to Haji Ismail Mohammed oSAMa Sloan. It's true the chess
world is bursting at the seams with kooks, but you and oSAMa are the
Kook Kings of Chess. All the others are just pretenders.>> --
lockedroom@aol.com
________________________________________________________________
"FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not be
able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical Commission.
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| Mike Nolan 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| "Bill Smythe" <chichess@beforeRCNafter.com> writes:
quote:
>When I was eleven years old I sent a joke to the Weekly Reader. They didn't
>publish it.
quote:
>It's a tough world all around.
Maybe they didn't understand Smythescript?
--
Mike Nolan
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| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) wrote in message news:<20041015191732.27265.00002590@mb-m03.aol.com>...
quote:
> Five months ago I sent an article for publication ... to the Editor of
CHESS LIFE ... He did NOT respond. I wrote the Editor twice more
without a response. I then wrote to William Goichberg about this. I
sent Goichberg a story for publication ... I did not receive a
response ... I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a response.
James Schroeder >
This is rich: James Schroeder, who for decades has derided and
insulted almost everyone in American chess journalism, is complaining
now that they don't answer his letters. This is something like Hitler
complaining he never gets invited to bar mitzvahs.
| |
| Spam Scone 2004-10-17, 12:47 am |
| doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
> It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines, lets
> authors know that materials have been received, and so on. They may not choose
> to publish you, but you do not want to tick off the community that supplies
> your articles. I have not written a lot in the chess community, but I have
> nearly 1000 articles in my professional field of expertise, so I know a thing
> or two about editors. This is NOT the same thing as sending a joke to Playboy,
> although Pehme might like to transform CL into the next Playboy.
Playboy used to publish good articles, so I am told.
quote:
> I know one author who is well-published in the chess community who has not been
> able to get Pehme to send him the guidelines for authors (essential for a
> magazine like CL) for over a year, despite SASEs, multiple emails, etc.
Aside from me? Who else does he ignore?
| |
| Doctor SBD 2004-10-18, 5:47 pm |
| >Aside from me? Who else does he ignore?
quote:
>
Apparently anyone who doesn't have the equipment he requires. You probably
aren't "sassy" enough, Neil.
SBD
| |
| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-19, 5:47 pm |
| doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
> It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines...
you do not want to tick off the community that supplies your articles
.... Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.>
Whatever Pehme's faults, he would have to go a long way to top
Schroeder. Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published
"Confidential Chess Lessons" knows that he is probably the most
offensive and egotistical person ever to write on the game. Seldom if
ever has he written a page without calling someone a moron, imbecile,
idiot, fool, stupid, etc., often with additional verbiage of an
obscene nature. His insult targets have included GM Yasser Seirawan,
GM Larry Evans, GM Viktor Korchnoi, CL editor Glenn Petersen, Inside
Chess editor Mike Franett, British writers Mike Fox and Richard James,
and many others.
Schroeder often claims to have found "obvious" errors in published
analysis, yet the published work usually proves sound and his proposed
alternatives flawed. He presumes to correct others' grammar but his
own writing is riddled with mistakes. And his "historical" work is a
joke, full of unsupported prejudices and baseless opinions.
Yet, Schroeder modestly has said "I know more about chess than
anybody that ever lived." (See Winter's "Kings, Commoners and Knaves"
p. 385)
Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
Taylor Kingston
| |
| Kenneth Sloan 2004-10-19, 5:47 pm |
| tkingston@chittenden.com (Taylor Kingston) writes:
quote:
> ...
> Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
> America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
>
> Taylor Kingston
Give him time.
--
Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/
| |
| Chess One 2004-10-19, 5:47 pm |
|
"Taylor Kingston" <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote in message
news:dbe68208.0410191012.5db13ade@posting.google.com...
quote:
> doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message
news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
>
guidelines...[vbcol=seagreen]
> you do not want to tick off the community that supplies your articles
> ... Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.>
>
> Whatever Pehme's faults, he would have to go a long way to top
> Schroeder. Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published
> "Confidential Chess Lessons" knows that he is probably the most
> offensive and egotistical person ever to write on the game.
Greco, remember Greco. Who incidentally ripped everyone off with his
chess-rutters, including Damiano who had in turn copied Lucena wholesale,
and Greco took from them both, re-rendering all in very bad Italian grammar,
without citation through 6 Italian editions, plus a French and an English
version.
quote:
> Seldom if
> ever has he written a page without calling someone a moron, imbecile,
> idiot, fool, stupid, etc., often with additional verbiage of an
> obscene nature. His insult targets have included GM Yasser Seirawan,
> GM Larry Evans, GM Viktor Korchnoi, CL editor Glenn Petersen, Inside
> Chess editor Mike Franett, British writers Mike Fox and Richard James,
> and many others.
No obvious grouping in that crew. All males?
quote:
> Schroeder often claims to have found "obvious" errors in published
> analysis, yet the published work usually proves sound and his proposed
> alternatives flawed. He presumes to correct others' grammar but his
> own writing is riddled with mistakes. And his "historical" work is a
> joke, full of unsupported prejudices and baseless opinions.
I haven't reviewed Mr. Schroeder, but I think you must have 
quote:
> Yet, Schroeder modestly has said "I know more about chess than
> anybody that ever lived." (See Winter's "Kings, Commoners and Knaves"
> p. 385)
Not a self-contradiction necessarily, you must discard most of what other
people have said and speak only of your own opinions.
quote:
> Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
> America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
Having established one end of the journalistic spectrum, you settle on an
anaesthetic to our interest, rather than remedy the asphyxiated void by
airing acceptable values.
Why don't you do the job yourself?
There is no editorial reason to physically move to Cross*ville, and you can
continue to admire the view in North Puffin while swatting Yankee mosquitoes
instead of the southern kind. Besides, you would be worth criticisng, which
is a sure standard.
Phil Innes
Kiplingsville, Vt
[*who was Cross?]
quote:
> Taylor Kingston
| |
| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-20, 9:45 am |
| "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<m6fdd.14069$fP3.6493@trndny05>...
<< Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published "Confidential Chess
Lessons" knows that he is probably the most offensive and egotistical
person ever to write on the game. >
< Greco, remember Greco.>
Hmmm, Phil, I must admit to a hole in my erudition, having never
read Greco. Io non parlo Italiano ni Griego. If he was anything like
Schroeder, I'd rather not.
quote:
> I haven't reviewed Mr. Schroeder, but I think you must have >
Not in any published way, except to discuss a dreadful article he
wrote about Keres and Botvinnik, in my own article on that subject
(Chess Life, May 1998). Otherwise my impressions of his work are based
on reading his "Confidential Chess Lessons" and various abusive
letters he has sent me.
< Having established one end of the journalistic spectrum, you settle
on an anaesthetic to our interest, rather than remedy the asphyxiated
void by airing acceptable values. >
My favorite anaesthetic is Chivas Regal. When I figure out what the
rest of that sentence means, I'll try to answer it.
If you're saying I support Pehme, I do not. My posts in this thread
are intended merely to point out how ludicrous it is for Schroeder to
complain that no one in USCF or CL answers his letters, when he has
been so abusive toward them.
quote:
> Why don't you do the job yourself? >
In 1961 Robert McNamara quit as president of Ford Motor Company to
become Secretary of Defense, at a substantial reduction in pay. He
resigned in 1968, a major factor being the intense stress of the
Vietnam War. The scenario you propose seems to augur a repetition of
history, on a small scale.
TTK
| |
| Chess One 2004-10-20, 9:45 am |
|
quote:
> If you're saying I support Pehme, I do not. My posts in this thread
> are intended merely to point out how ludicrous it is for Schroeder to
> complain that no one in USCF or CL answers his letters, when he has
> been so abusive toward them.
>
>
> In 1961 Robert McNamara quit as president of Ford Motor Company to
> become Secretary of Defense, at a substantial reduction in pay. He
> resigned in 1968, a major factor being the intense stress of the
> Vietnam War. The scenario you propose seems to augur a repetition of
> history, on a small scale.
You would rather become Secretary of Defence? I think this is not a serious
answer, and the magazine is already at war with good journalism.
Seriously, you are the right sort of candidate to create any future friction
based on good chess stuff - which is the best sort of journalism, rather
than the recycled trite and risible nonsense currently being hustled to a
captive audience.
If this doesn't appeal, there is a new international bi-lingual chess mag in
the offing [funded!] which might suit.
I have to go now to see the governor about USCF's move here to Brattleboro.
I will probably have to tone it down and make them seem desirable [they are
not all new yorkers!] or something. Any ideas?
Cordially, Phil
quote:
> TTK
| |
| Jane Adams 2004-10-20, 9:45 am |
| Nice try Mike.
Hugh Hefner wasn't running a not for profit, members corporation, whose
mission is to promote Chess.
Hef was promoting Chest!
Jane
http://users.lvcm.com/jadams
"Mike Nolan" <nolan@gw.tssi.com> wrote in message
news:ckpn4k$ioh$1@gw.tssi.com...
quote:
> rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) writes:
>
the[vbcol=seagreen]
did[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish
it.
quote:
>
> Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either.
>
> Bastards!
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
| |
| Bill Smythe 2004-10-20, 5:46 pm |
| "Mike Nolan" wrote:
quote:
> I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish
it.
quote:
> .... Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either. ....
When I was eleven years old I sent a joke to the Weekly Reader. They didn't
publish it.
It's a tough world all around.
Bill Smythe
| |
| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-20, 5:46 pm |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) wrote in message news:<20041015191732.27265.00002590@mb-m03.aol.com>...
quote:
> Five months ago I sent an article for publication ... to the Editor of
CHESS LIFE ... He did NOT respond. I wrote the Editor twice more
without a response. I then wrote to William Goichberg about this. I
sent Goichberg a story for publication ... I did not receive a
response ... I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a response.
James Schroeder >
This is rich: James Schroeder, who for decades has derided and
insulted almost everyone in American chess journalism, is complaining
now that they don't answer his letters. This is something like Hitler
complaining he never gets invited to bar mitzvahs.
| |
| Spam Scone 2004-10-20, 5:46 pm |
| doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
> It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines, lets
> authors know that materials have been received, and so on. They may not choose
> to publish you, but you do not want to tick off the community that supplies
> your articles. I have not written a lot in the chess community, but I have
> nearly 1000 articles in my professional field of expertise, so I know a thing
> or two about editors. This is NOT the same thing as sending a joke to Playboy,
> although Pehme might like to transform CL into the next Playboy.
Playboy used to publish good articles, so I am told.
quote:
> I know one author who is well-published in the chess community who has not been
> able to get Pehme to send him the guidelines for authors (essential for a
> magazine like CL) for over a year, despite SASEs, multiple emails, etc.
Aside from me? Who else does he ignore?
| |
| Mike Nolan 2004-10-21, 5:46 pm |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) writes:
quote:
>Five months ago I sent an article for publication “Five US Opens” to the
>Editor of CHESS LIFE. I enclosed a self-addressed, stamped, envelope. He did
>NOT respond.
>I wrote the Editor twice more without a response.
I once wrote a short story and sent it to PLAYBOY. They didn't publish it.
Readers Digest doesn't publish my jokes, either.
Bastards!
--
Mike Nolan
| |
| Doctor SBD 2004-10-22, 6:45 am |
| It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines, lets
authors know that materials have been received, and so on. They may not choose
to publish you, but you do not want to tick off the community that supplies
your articles. I have not written a lot in the chess community, but I have
nearly 1000 articles in my professional field of expertise, so I know a thing
or two about editors. This is NOT the same thing as sending a joke to Playboy,
although Pehme might like to transform CL into the next Playboy.
I know one author who is well-published in the chess community who has not been
able to get Pehme to send him the guidelines for authors (essential for a
magazine like CL) for over a year, despite SASEs, multiple emails, etc.
Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.
It is like everything else with USCF - no accountability. "Send us your money
and we will rate some games and send you the crappiest chess magazine in the
world" should be their motto.
SBD
| |
| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-23, 5:45 pm |
| rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) wrote in message news:<20041015191732.27265.00002590@mb-m03.aol.com>...
quote:
> Five months ago I sent an article for publication ... to the Editor of
CHESS LIFE ... He did NOT respond. I wrote the Editor twice more
without a response. I then wrote to William Goichberg about this. I
sent Goichberg a story for publication ... I did not receive a
response ... I wrote Goichberg again and did not receive a response.
James Schroeder >
This is rich: James Schroeder, who for decades has derided and
insulted almost everyone in American chess journalism, is complaining
now that they don't answer his letters. This is something like Hitler
complaining he never gets invited to bar mitzvahs.
| |
| Spam Scone 2004-10-23, 5:45 pm |
| doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
> It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines, lets
> authors know that materials have been received, and so on. They may not choose
> to publish you, but you do not want to tick off the community that supplies
> your articles. I have not written a lot in the chess community, but I have
> nearly 1000 articles in my professional field of expertise, so I know a thing
> or two about editors. This is NOT the same thing as sending a joke to Playboy,
> although Pehme might like to transform CL into the next Playboy.
Playboy used to publish good articles, so I am told.
quote:
> I know one author who is well-published in the chess community who has not been
> able to get Pehme to send him the guidelines for authors (essential for a
> magazine like CL) for over a year, despite SASEs, multiple emails, etc.
Aside from me? Who else does he ignore?
| |
| Doctor SBD 2004-10-24, 6:45 am |
| >Aside from me? Who else does he ignore?
quote:
>
Apparently anyone who doesn't have the equipment he requires. You probably
aren't "sassy" enough, Neil.
SBD
| |
| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-24, 6:45 am |
| doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
> It may be tough world, but a good editor sends out publication guidelines...
you do not want to tick off the community that supplies your articles
.... Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.>
Whatever Pehme's faults, he would have to go a long way to top
Schroeder. Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published
"Confidential Chess Lessons" knows that he is probably the most
offensive and egotistical person ever to write on the game. Seldom if
ever has he written a page without calling someone a moron, imbecile,
idiot, fool, stupid, etc., often with additional verbiage of an
obscene nature. His insult targets have included GM Yasser Seirawan,
GM Larry Evans, GM Viktor Korchnoi, CL editor Glenn Petersen, Inside
Chess editor Mike Franett, British writers Mike Fox and Richard James,
and many others.
Schroeder often claims to have found "obvious" errors in published
analysis, yet the published work usually proves sound and his proposed
alternatives flawed. He presumes to correct others' grammar but his
own writing is riddled with mistakes. And his "historical" work is a
joke, full of unsupported prejudices and baseless opinions.
Yet, Schroeder modestly has said "I know more about chess than
anybody that ever lived." (See Winter's "Kings, Commoners and Knaves"
p. 385)
Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
Taylor Kingston
| |
| Kenneth Sloan 2004-10-24, 6:45 am |
| tkingston@chittenden.com (Taylor Kingston) writes:
quote:
> ...
> Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
> America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
>
> Taylor Kingston
Give him time.
--
Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/
| |
| Chess One 2004-10-26, 6:45 am |
|
"Taylor Kingston" <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote in message
news:dbe68208.0410191012.5db13ade@posting.google.com...
quote:
> doctorsbd@aol.com (Doctor SBD) wrote in message
news:<20041016122329.25615.00001902@mb-m17.aol.com>...
quote:
>
guidelines...[vbcol=seagreen]
> you do not want to tick off the community that supplies your articles
> ... Pehme is a misogynistic, chess-illiterate disaster.>
>
> Whatever Pehme's faults, he would have to go a long way to top
> Schroeder. Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published
> "Confidential Chess Lessons" knows that he is probably the most
> offensive and egotistical person ever to write on the game.
Greco, remember Greco. Who incidentally ripped everyone off with his
chess-rutters, including Damiano who had in turn copied Lucena wholesale,
and Greco took from them both, re-rendering all in very bad Italian grammar,
without citation through 6 Italian editions, plus a French and an English
version.
quote:
> Seldom if
> ever has he written a page without calling someone a moron, imbecile,
> idiot, fool, stupid, etc., often with additional verbiage of an
> obscene nature. His insult targets have included GM Yasser Seirawan,
> GM Larry Evans, GM Viktor Korchnoi, CL editor Glenn Petersen, Inside
> Chess editor Mike Franett, British writers Mike Fox and Richard James,
> and many others.
No obvious grouping in that crew. All males?
quote:
> Schroeder often claims to have found "obvious" errors in published
> analysis, yet the published work usually proves sound and his proposed
> alternatives flawed. He presumes to correct others' grammar but his
> own writing is riddled with mistakes. And his "historical" work is a
> joke, full of unsupported prejudices and baseless opinions.
I haven't reviewed Mr. Schroeder, but I think you must have
quote:
> Yet, Schroeder modestly has said "I know more about chess than
> anybody that ever lived." (See Winter's "Kings, Commoners and Knaves"
> p. 385)
Not a self-contradiction necessarily, you must discard most of what other
people have said and speak only of your own opinions.
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> Whatever Pehme may be doing wrong, at least he is not wasting
> America's time and USCF's money on articles by James Schroeder.
Having established one end of the journalistic spectrum, you settle on an
anaesthetic to our interest, rather than remedy the asphyxiated void by
airing acceptable values.
Why don't you do the job yourself?
There is no editorial reason to physically move to Cross*ville, and you can
continue to admire the view in North Puffin while swatting Yankee mosquitoes
instead of the southern kind. Besides, you would be worth criticisng, which
is a sure standard.
Phil Innes
Kiplingsville, Vt
[*who was Cross?]
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| Taylor Kingston 2004-10-26, 5:46 pm |
| "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<m6fdd.14069$fP3.6493@trndny05>...
<< Anyone who has read Schroeder's self-published "Confidential Chess
Lessons" knows that he is probably the most offensive and egotistical
person ever to write on the game. >
< Greco, remember Greco.>
Hmmm, Phil, I must admit to a hole in my erudition, having never
read Greco. Io non parlo Italiano ni Griego. If he was anything like
Schroeder, I'd rather not.
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> I haven't reviewed Mr. Schroeder, but I think you must have >
Not in any published way, except to discuss a dreadful article he
wrote about Keres and Botvinnik, in my own article on that subject
(Chess Life, May 1998). Otherwise my impressions of his work are based
on reading his "Confidential Chess Lessons" and various abusive
letters he has sent me.
< Having established one end of the journalistic spectrum, you settle
on an anaesthetic to our interest, rather than remedy the asphyxiated
void by airing acceptable values. >
My favorite anaesthetic is Chivas Regal. When I figure out what the
rest of that sentence means, I'll try to answer it.
If you're saying I support Pehme, I do not. My posts in this thread
are intended merely to point out how ludicrous it is for Schroeder to
complain that no one in USCF or CL answers his letters, when he has
been so abusive toward them.
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> Why don't you do the job yourself? >
In 1961 Robert McNamara quit as president of Ford Motor Company to
become Secretary of Defense, at a substantial reduction in pay. He
resigned in 1968, a major factor being the intense stress of the
Vietnam War. The scenario you propose seems to augur a repetition of
history, on a small scale.
TTK
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| Chess One 2004-10-26, 5:46 pm |
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> If you're saying I support Pehme, I do not. My posts in this thread
> are intended merely to point out how ludicrous it is for Schroeder to
> complain that no one in USCF or CL answers his letters, when he has
> been so abusive toward them.
>
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> In 1961 Robert McNamara quit as president of Ford Motor Company to
> become Secretary of Defense, at a substantial reduction in pay. He
> resigned in 1968, a major factor being the intense stress of the
> Vietnam War. The scenario you propose seems to augur a repetition of
> history, on a small scale.
You would rather become Secretary of Defence? I think this is not a serious
answer, and the magazine is already at war with good journalism.
Seriously, you are the right sort of candidate to create any future friction
based on good chess stuff - which is the best sort of journalism, rather
than the recycled trite and risible nonsense currently being hustled to a
captive audience.
If this doesn't appeal, there is a new international bi-lingual chess mag in
the offing [funded!] which might suit.
I have to go now to see the governor about USCF's move here to Brattleboro.
I will probably have to tone it down and make them seem desirable [they are
not all new yorkers!] or something. Any ideas?
Cordially, Phil
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