Religious right, Atheist left

Vanity | 4 December 2005 | Self

[balrog666]

Quadrant. Think quadrant: religious right, atheist right, religious left, atheist left.

Yes, yes, quadrant, quadrant - libertarian scales.

Now back to chess. In a moment of rationality, I looked around a year or two ago for some organization(s) to donate my old chess books to but found no real takers. I ended up selling some on ebay and I have the rest stacked up here soemwhere to remind me to do something with them. I have a neat little "Quotations from the Masters" from 190x (or thereabouts) and a first edition of Alekhine's Games signed by the man himself and a bunch of more-or-less mediocre books of various ages and descriptions. Anybody have a suggestion?

[furball4paws]

Here's the previous Fischer/Iceland thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365918/posts

[Uri’el-2012]

Hilary is a self-identified Communitarian.

See :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarian

[furball4paws]

The Alekhine book should be easily able to find a home, especially signed. It is also a great book, with an ego filter applied. How about your local library?

I've go Kasparov's "My Great Predecessors" series. I like them, generally. He spends a lot of time saying how important Fischer was to modern chess, but when he got to Fischer he is often not nice. Curious - could be an ego thing.

[kcar]

Ah MAN, I love Alekhine above all other gods. Should you care to donate to a real wood-pushing patzer, please consider the following charity; ME!

[furball4paws]

I had to go read the link you posted. So, I guess that explains the "It takes a Village" thing. But with the Hildabeast, everything she does or says is suspect.

[balrog666]

I've go Kasparov's "My Great Predecessors" series. I like them, generally. He spends a lot of time saying how important Fischer was to modern chess, but when he got to Fischer he is often not nice. Curious - could be an ego thing.

Probably envy given how he "achieved" the title.

[kcar]

Ignore this post. I donated the Ayn Rand Letters (x number of years) to a local library I spent alot of time at when I was a teenager. They probably pitched them. They certainly never displayed them.

Signed books by Alekhine should only be donated to a source that is sure to treat them with the reverence that's due. If in a quandary, try ME!

[furball4paws]

You would probably like these books. The analyses are in great depth along with Fritz to help. And he doesn't just look at past champions, he also includes the also rans or almost rans like Keres and Reshevsky and Larsen, etc. His historical insights are interesting, although maybe not accurate. He tries to look at the games from a historical perspective and the relative quality at the time, especially the older ones. But when he gets to Karpov and newer, his prejudices become much more apparent.

[furball4paws]

I'm not the one with the signed Alekhine, that's senor Balrog666.

[balrog666]

Ignore this post. I donated the Ayn Rand Letters (x number of years) to a local library I spent alot of time at when I was a teenager. They probably pitched them. They certainly never displayed them.

I've seen what happens when you donate to a library or a university who doesn't understand what you give them.

Signed books by Alekhine should only be donated to a source that is sure to treat them with the reverence that's due. If in a quandary, try ME!

kcar did ask first. I have second copy but it's in really awful shape. Anybody else you like, furball?

[kcar]

Those who said he was a besotted Nazi were far too extreme. Sure he could have been more gracious to our beloved Jose, but his wife was behind Nazi lines in France (where else?) when those anti-semetic essays were crafted. He was ghosted.

[balrog666]

Those who said he was a besotted Nazi were far too extreme. Sure he could have been more gracious to our beloved Jose, but his wife was behind Nazi lines in France (where else?) when those anti-semetic essays were crafted. He was ghosted.

After the WWI internment, they all probably hated each other as well as teh Germans.

[RightWingAtheist]

Even though I have a picture of Ayn Rand on my homepage, I'm definitely more of the classical liberal/modern conservative (modernist-conservative?) variety.

[balrog666]

Anybody in for collections from Rubenstein, Bronstein, Keres, Spielman, Portisch, Shirov, Piatagorski Cup I&II, etc. ??

Send me a Freepmail and I will apportion the remaining good stuff out to all comers.

Out 'til tomorrow, balrog666

[furball4paws]

I have Alekhine's book. The "Think, Play, etc. like a grandmaster" series is supposed to be good. I have one, that I can't find right now. The other(s) is/are out of print. Otherwise I've got more than enough chess book laying around myself.

[Right Wing Professor]

Sorry to hear the experience sucked. I never got to play anyone above IM level back when I was playing. Ireland wasn't exactly a chess mecca.

I suspect these guys have some formulaic set of variations they play in simulataneous exhibitions, so thye can make most of the first 15 moves mechanically. Maybe you took him off the beaten path, and he had to think, and that's what annoyed him.

[furball4paws]

He played 1. e4 on every board. There's little a 16 year old can offer that he hadn't seen thousands of times before. He was just irked because I didn't resign when he thought I should.

There were only two games that went beyond about 35 moves. On one Fischer had 4 pawns for a knight and a dominant king. It was instructive. In the other, it looked like a draw to me, but it was some club player against Fischer. Even though material was even, he won handily.

When I played Reshevsky he began f4, e4, d4, c4 on successive boards. I got an English and I wasn't ready and lost easily. He didn't care. Again what could a teenager offer against a seasoned pro? Someone actually drew him in that simul.

[Right Wing Professor]

On one Fischer had 4 pawns for a knight and a dominant king. It was instructive. In the other, it looked like a draw to me, but it was some club player against Fischer. Even though material was even, he won handily.

Capablanca used to say the endgame was what separated the men from the boys.

[balrog666]

Damn, still can't give this stuff away.