| Louis Blair 2005-05-30, 8:32 pm |
| Larry Parr told us (30 May 2005
12:29:20 -0700) that GM Evans
wrote:
quote:
> Ken Whyld told me what Keres said
> when we met in London in 1988. I
> cherish the copy of the Oxford
> Companion that he inscribed to me
> on that occasion. Since Keres died
> in 1975, Ken had no qualms about
> discussing it freely. Apparently he
> already told other researchers and
> he didn't ask me to keep it under
> my hat.
>_
> I didn't quote Whyld in my October
> 1996 article on The Tragedy of Paul
> Keres for the simple reason that I
> forgot about it. I was juggling many
> pieces of information and my focus
> was on the five Keres-Botvinnik games.
_
The focus of GM Evans was not so
completely on the games that he
failed to take up the question of
what Keres said about the matter.
quote:
>From the 1996 GM Evans article
itself:
_
"... his lips always remained
sealed about his awful score
against Botvinnik."
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