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To: kattracks
Boy, I certainly hope Mr. Krauthammer PLAYS a better game of chess than he narrates portions of chess history.

First, Mr. Krauthammer, we haven't used the letter 'w' in transliterative orthography from the Russian language in DECADES, putz. Try ''Nimzovich''.

And, he spelt his first name with exactly one 'A', not two, hence 'Aron'.

Now, as regards Bogolyubov (which name, btw, means ''beloved of G-d''), he was hardly the first to make the comment about winning whether white or black. Some 3 decades earlier, the great Russian champion Tchigorin was the originator of the comment. How Bogolyubov has come to be credited with this remark is entirely a mystery; this whole business is and has been well-documented for, once again, many decades.

Tell me, KrautMartel old boy, would you care to narrate the tale of the conversation between Alyekhine and Nimzovich at the championship tourney in 1926? (You DO know where it was contested, correct?)

Oh, you don't? Ah, too bad, CabbageHammer.

Stick to the knitting you know, laddiebuck.

5 posted on 08/26/2004 11:01:56 PM PDT by SAJ (Today is optimum. Write LBX 460 or 470-strike calls.. About 14% roc with expectation > .94)
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To: SAJ
Normally, I would not be one to nit pick someone's use of the language, but in this case an exception is demanded:

And, he spelt his first name with exactly one 'A', not two, hence 'Aron'.

On an American forum, your use of the British form "spelt" was entirely inappropriate. Especially in simple rather the perfect past tense. It sounds like you are over correcting, perhaps to compensate for something?

13 posted on 08/27/2004 12:45:15 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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