| Taylor Kingston 2005-05-30, 8:32 pm |
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Chess One wrote:
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> Well, we can all be guilty of under-researching our subject!
Indeed. In addition to Parr's attempted-insult foot-in-his-own-mouth
gaffe above, "The Tragedy of Paul Keres" by Larry Evans, Chess Life,
October 1996 is a prime example of both under-research, and
over-research in wrong places. See "The Keres-Botvinnik Case: A Survey
of the Evidence" in Chess Life, May 1998, for a critique. This article
is also available online at:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kb1.txt and
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kb2.txt.
One might also mention Phil Innes' claim that Yuri Averbakh was in
the KGB, a claim seriously under-researched to date (i.e. no evidence
whatever presented). Interestingly, I asked about this in my
conversation with Lev Alburt yesterday. Alburt, who has known Averbakh
personally for years, knew of nothing to support Innes' claim.
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