| Taylor Kingston 2006-08-03, 2:51 am |
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raylopez99 wrote:
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> Skeptic wrote:
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> This book, the Big Book of Combinations, was quite useful to me ...
Too bad, then, that the money you paid did not go to the original
authors.
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> personally, since I worked through the examples one by one (took, on
> and off, several years). It inspired me to buy other combination books
> (aside from Reinfield) including the Informant book of combinations.
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> What a spiteful, insular little group this is...
I would agree that certain people on this group are highly spiteful
and insular.
Or are you saying you consider it "spiteful" to oppose plagiarism and
outright copying?
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> is Kingston really Winter?
No. That is a fantasy of Sam Sloan's.
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> I bought Winter's book on historical exposes but have not yet
> opened it.
What book would that be? I am not aware of one which specializes in
"historical expos=E9s."
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> Winter is a stickler for detail. You could commend him.
> And it raises the academic question: why is so much bile spilt over
> chess?
A good question, one for which I have no solid answer. I would
suggest that perhaps the competitive nature of the game attracts
combative personalities. It also seems to attract more than its share
of hucksters and liars. Naturally when they are faulted or
contradicted, friction ensues.
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> Because so little money is at stake.
That might partly explain the bile of some whose livelihood depends
on chess. However, there are those who make their living from the game
yet who are not notably splenetic, e.g. IM John Donaldson.
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