| Taylor Kingston 2006-08-20, 7:37 pm |
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Chess One wrote:
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> "Taylor Kingston" <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote in message
> news:1156085231.891041.220260@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
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> Kingston is starting to sound like Kennedy and pretending that he can't
> understand that the topic never changed. Therefore he is confused. How
> pathetic!
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> Tell us more about what you know about how irrelevant they were?
Um, Phil, you are the one claiming to know more than I, and more than
Korchnoi himself has disclosed, so please enlighten us.
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> Yes indeed. That is the only overt action that is publicly recorded. But
> again, did you never understand anything from Gulko's story about
> refuseniks?
Please tell us this story and explain its relevance to
Korchnoi-Karpov 1974.
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> Anyway, to let that pass... since Kingston couldn't think of any
> questions to ask the people who oppressed these folks - even after being
> cued by Russians themselves!
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> In short, we have short curiosity here.
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> Simply?
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> Kingston means that the overt hostility shown Kortchnoi in his match re
> Karpov did not exist before-hand because he doesn't now of any, or read of
> it in Korchnoi's book.
Nonsense. Soviet officialdom's dislike and mistrust of Korchnoi goes
back at least to 1963, when he and Tal got into trouble in Havana. It's
all described at length in his autobiography, including some dirty
stuff in 1974. However, Korchnoi says nothing of such extreme measures
as holding his family hostage, imprisoning his son etc., until
*_after_* he defected in 1976.
And Korchnoi is not the kind of guy to keep that sort of thing
bottled up -- not since he's been free to speak his mind after leaving
the USSR 30 years ago. He sees conspiracies everywhere anyway, and
describes them at length, whether they're real or imagined. So if he
had a real case of his family being persecuted in 1974, you can bet
he'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
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