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Article #2087Re: FIDE's response to KKK's open letter
From: Greg Kennedy
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:37
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:37
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> There has been little response in these [rgcp] threads which tend to > concentrate on USCF matters [rgcp] however www.chesscafe.com has a lively > bulletin board on the subject with contributions from all over Europe. > > Some weeks ago in these threads I anticipated the discussion, but not to > anyone's satisfaction :) and it continues to interest me why American chess > should see itself as something apart from the world scene, which it is so > evidently not; it is interdependent with the global chess scene. It's because our man, Booby Fischer, can whoop the tar out of all you commie fureiners, unastan'? Oh, it's you, Phil. Sorry 'bout that! I really don't know what it is that makes Americans think they are the bright center of the chess universe, but this is readilly apparent in our chess press, for example. And the approach taken by our press seems to have had a ripple effect. Or, more like an avalanche.... ;-)
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