Re: ****rov's Sad Saga

On Apr 28, 1:10=A0pm, J=FCrgen R. <jurg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> [...]
>
> >Korchnoi became the target of Soviet wrath when he defected in 1976.
> >First they tried to disqualify him from a title shot on the grounds
> >that he was stateless, but FIDE had the courage to declare that
> >challengers represented themselves as individuals, not their nations.
> >FIDE nonetheless bowed to Soviet pressure by forcing Korchnoi to
> >accept a rematch clause that FIDE had stricken in 1963.
>
> The clock will soon have stricken 12 for chess journalists
> without a command of the irregular verb forms.

  I believe "stricken" is quite proper here. I've seen hundreds of TV
and movie courtroom scenes where an attorney says "I move that
statement be stricken from the record." By the same token, a rule may
be stricken from the books.