Chess politics - Re: Kingston hits, runs, errs

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Re: Kingston hits, runs, errs

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-04-27, 12:35 am

COMING IN FROM THE COLD

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>"He also wrote a long screed justifyingy [sic] Campo's stopping of the

first Kasparov-Karpov match.">

Still waiting, Larry. Like Adlai Stevenson said to the Russian
ambassador in 1962, I can wait until hell freezes over. --Taylor
Kingston

Dear Taylor,

I am without the fatigue of Old World ennui.

Now, then, are we talking about the Winter report that Mr.
Campomanes paid to have mailed throughout the world, using FIDE funds,
some of which would have been USCF dues to FIDE?

Are we talking about the piece that appeared 20 years ago in Mr.
Winter's Chess Notes for which Mr. Campomanes took out subscriptions
for all FIDE nations using FIDE funds?

As I understand the matter, your argument amounts to the idea
that Mr. Campomanes used FIDE funds to mail out Mr. Winter's screed in
a spirit of a disinterested desire either that the chess world read a
balanced account or, perhaps, in a Voltairean spirit that the chess
world read an account that attacked him? Is that it?

Above all else, Mr. Campomanes, that paragon of honesty and
financial probity, would not mail out an account that favored him? Is
that the idea?

I wrote a view of what Mr. Winter said in his journal some 20
years back. If you or someone else would care to mail me a copy or
point out where it can be obtained online, I would be delighted to rip
his Winter's account to shreds -- beginning, one supposes, with the
revelation that both Mr. Campomanes himself and arbiter Herr Kinzel had
undisclosed extant business dealings with Anatoly Karpov involving
Novag in Hong Kong. You get the idea: match arbiter is also
undisclosed business partner with one of the match contestants.

Then there was that delicious moment at the press conference on
February 15, 1985, when Campomanes was caught by a CNN mike whispering
to Karpov, "I told them exactly what you told me to tell them." Ah
well.

Yet Campo himself told the press conference at its start that he
did not yet know, even as he spoke, what decision he would make! Ah, I
am sure you would agree, the lies.