| Louis Blair 2006-08-02, 10:45 pm |
| Larry Parr wrote (24 Apr 2006 18:17:35 -0700):
quote:
> Ray Keene hits the nail, or at least NM Kingston,
> on the head. You are standing on the bridge of the
> Titanic when you feel a thud and hear a dull noise.
> You then decide that it is time to go to bed. It's
> been a long day, and you are unlucky to miss the
> story of your life (or death). Or you are walking
> down Geary in the middle of the San Francisco
> earthquake, and you intend to file a story on new
> marriages at the registrars. Which is dunderheadism
> rather than ill luck.
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Does Larry Parr accuse Soltis of "dunderheadism"?
After all, AS wrote the book, whereas Taylor Kingston
was just reviewing it.
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"of course, its not fair to expect a reviewer
to find all the analytical mistakes in a book"
- GM Keene quote reported by Phil Innes
(Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:50:08 GMT)
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GM Keene went on to try to make a point by
indicating that Taylor Kingston had decided "to
concentrate on" that "particular game". However,
an inspection of the actual review revealed that
this supposed concentration was no more than
a brief reference to the inadequacy of the
introductory material included with the game
by Soltis. Does Larry Parr have anything to say
about GM Keene's concentration claim?
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"there is ... a literary and historical problem:
a lack of context and setting for many of these
games. ... Occasionally, ... [Soltis] provides
good scene-setting, but in other cases, we
must content ourselves with the thumbnail
biographies.
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... It's interesting that Oldrich Duras gave up
chess in 1914 after marrying a wealthy
woman, but this has no relevance to his win
over Teichmann at Ostende 1906. I am
surprised and amused that Veselin Topalov
once tried bullfighting, but ...
In short, too often we don't learn ... THE
STORY OF THE PARTICULAR GAME.
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A contrasting approach is found in Ludek
Pachman's Decisive Games in Chess
History (1975). ...
...
... Pachman sets the stage, puts us on the
scene." - Taylor Kingston
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http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review246.pdf
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