[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]

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!

[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.