| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-05-30, 8:32 pm |
| TAYLOR KINGSTON'S PRIVATE WAR (Continued)
quote:
>Please take a rest!> Goran Tomic to Taylor Kingston
<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.> Taylor Kingston
Larry Evans did not fault Taylor Kingston for leaving anything out
of his article. He merely informed readers of information they probably
didn't know about the Keres-Botvinnik controversy.
I recall that after Mr. Kingston's "Review of the Evidence"
appeared in Chess Life, Larry told me he got letters asking why the
magazine wasted six pages on a piece of trash that added nothing new.
He didn't use any of these letters in Evans On Chess.
At first, Mr. Kingston attacked GM Evans for what he wrote. Now GM
Evans is being attacked for what he didn't write!
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Larry Evans' main object in THE TRAGEDY OF PAUL ERES was to circle
suspicious moves in all five Keres-Botvinnik games in the fixed 1948
World Championship. GM Evans did not attempt a full review of the
political and personal evidence because space was limited and his goal
was to look within the games themselves.
In 1988 I was with Larry in London to cover the Watson, Farley and
Williams International (won by Larsen, if memory serves). Ken Whyld
gave him an autographed copy of his Oxford Companion to Larry and I
remember they got along swell. Whyld, however, complained bitterly to
him about a review I wrote of this book.
At the time I did NOT discuss the Keres issue with Evans
because I was busily preparing an article about the tournament as well
as putting together a lengthy interview with Larsen in Chess Horizons
and in Chess Life that won a CJA award. My testimony is limited to the
following:
1. Larry was indeed chummy enough with Whyld in spite of the bad
feeling that Whyld entertained toward this writer;.
2. What Larry told me about Whyld's conversation with Keres.
3. What I told Larry about meeting with Sosonko in New York.
Botvinnik's startling admission in 1991 that Stalin personally
intervened was told to me directly by GM Sosonko, who conducted the
interview with the Soviet chess icon. I seem to recall that GM Lev
Alburt was a witness. Perhaps not. It was over 10 years ago.
My answers to Taylor Kingston's three questions (unlike his answers
to my mine) were truthful and accurate. He can rant and rave and
refuse to believe me,.but those are the facts. Louis Blair can ask all
the stupid questions he wants (and I'm sure he will) but those are the
facts.
-- Larry Parr
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