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In article <0DBH6.531$RK.61835@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> , "Greg 
Kennedy" <gmgk@earthlink.net> wrote:

>> 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'?

Odd who 'our man' is living with.

>
>   Oh, it's you, Phil.  Sorry 'bout that!

Hi Greg!

>   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....  ;-)

I always thought that after Rekjavik that [someplace in a park in NY City]
there should have been a sculpture to his achievement. I imagined it with
him sitting on the other side of a board staring down at it, wearing one of
those narrow ties, and on the board some incredible problem position from
one of his games - opposite was another seat, one that anyone could sit in
for a minute.

Surely it would have been worth a million photos by now?

I always thought that unless a man is honoured like this, at the moment and
for his achievement, then he is liable to seek satisfaction elsewhere, and I
am ever distrustful when a man climbs some difficult, seeming impossible
peak, solo, and seems unsatisfied.

Such a statue would have been no sure remedy to anything, but surely it
would have been a more human gesture for such a person than any amount of
money.

Cordially, Phil Innes