| Taylor Kingston 2005-05-30, 12:31 am |
| parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
quote:
> Ken Whyld, of
> course, spoke with many people about Keres on many occasions. He met
> Larry Evans in London to discuss this precise issue. Whyld's statement
> about Keres being warned not to finish ahead of Botvinnik was common
> knowledge long before 1998.
Care to explain then why Evans made no mention of this in his 1996
article? Surely, it would have been preferable to quote the respected
scholar Whyld rather than crackpot James Schroeder. It seems that Evans
was just as negligent as I am alleged to be.
Also, Whyld himself seems to contradict you. In an exchange of
e-mails with me in August 2001, I asked him if his story's June 2000
appearance on Tim Krabb=E9's website
(www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_4.htm, item #65) was its first
publication, and why he did not publish it sooner. His reply:
"Yes, that was perhaps the first publication. That was about the time
when I made my statement in reply to some discussion, perhaps on a
website.
"I never regarded it as something to repeat in his lifetime, although
he was probably secure enough in his later years. Later I thought it
not worth repeating. Firstly there is only my word for it, and secondly
he might not have been telling the truth." -- Ken Whyld, 11 August
2001, Message-ID: <003001c12256$5047d020$17ba193e@default>, from
ken@kwhyld.freeserve.co.uk.
quote:
> He told it to many people over the years
> including, when he visited America, Don Aldrich.
Trying to pull a fast one, Larry? The occasion you refer to was the
Chessco Festival in Davenport, Iowa, held in June 2000. That's AFTER
1998, remember? This can be confirmed by reading Mr. Aldrich's post
in the thread "Keres-Botvinnik A Middle Ground?" and checking the
festival date at http://tinyurl.com/bwl4k. To quote the relevant
portions:
"The Chess Festival series was started in 1998. That year our main
celebrities were GM Lubomir Kavalek, IM Nikolay Minev, Jon Edwards,
Allan Savage, and Tim Just ... In 2000 the second Chess Festival was
also held in June at the same Holiday Inn. The celebrities were GM
Eduard Gufeld, IM Jeremy Silman, historian Ken Whyld, and Jon Edwards
back for a return engagement."
quote:
> Still, I knew about the Botvinnik material long before it was
> published by Tim Krabbe, and my view is that someone such as Mr.
> Kingston, who reviewed the evidence without, however, knowing zilch
> about Soviet politics, ought to have known more than I did.
Care to explain, then, why the Botvinnik statement is also missing
from Evans' 1996 article? Can we conclude from this that Evans too
"ought to have known more than I did"?
quote:
> What I knew, surely someone researching the subject for Chess
> Life could also find out.
And what you knew, surely your close associate Larry Evans could find
out. You mean you never told him?
quote:
> Did Mr. Kingston write to Mr. Whyld?
At some length. See sample excerpt above.
quote:
> Now, the nub of the complaint is that GM Evans used an anachronism
> to make Kingston look negligent. Not at all.
Balls. Evans' "despite" is a cheap shot, not his only one, and
typical of his brand of dishonesty. His logic is like that of the Red
Queen in 'Through the Looking Glass': "It's a poor sort of memory that
only works backwards." He wants people to believe I knew things in
early 1998 that I did not until late 1999 and mid-2000.
And from all appearances, Evans himself did not know them until then.
I've read every "Evans on Chess" column in Chess Life since well before
1991, and everything else he has written in Chess Life over that time.
Where is any mention of the Keres-Whyld conversation, or the Botvinnik
interview, by Evans?
Most importantly, if Evans knew these things so far in advance of
their publication, why were they not in his 1996 article, where they
most clearly belong? If he is going to fault me for leaving out what I
don't know, I think it entirely fair to fault him for leaving out what
Parr claims he did know.
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