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Article #294Re: Chess
From: colonel
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1986 17:58
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1986 17:58
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> In article <102100007@haddock.UUCP> trb@haddock.UUCP writes:
> >Directing
> >tournaments, editing newsletters, being a chess federation official,
> >etc, are commendable activities and they have nothing to do with
> >chess, the game.
>
> Well, Andrew, thanks for the reply. Your opinion is probably typical
> of most chess players, especially in regard to directing tournaments,
> editing newsletter, etc. ... Therefore, few players take the time or
> effort to become TD's (or editors, etc.), because they don't understand
> what it has to do with "the game."
Most players don't realize that directing can be as much fun as playing.
Those fifth-round Harkness-Morrison pairings can be harder than a Sam Loyd
3-mover!
And where else do you get to write on the walls?
"Grandmister Oinkovitch, what do you think of Mecking?"
"I don't know--I've never mecked!"
--Kloony
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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