On Apr 28, 10:03 pm, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> KANE'S VERSION OF HISTORY
>
> >Don't get your history from Larry Parr. Refusing
> emigration requests for families of defectors has little
> do with chess and less to do with Karpov. It was
> routine Soviet practice.
> Karpov and Korchnoi have been cordial in later years - hardly
> what one would expect if Karpov had been behind some evil plot.
> -- David Kane
Long-winded rant snipped.
It certainly appears that Mr. Kane struck a nerve
by correcting another of Mr. Parr's innumerable
fallacies.
In ratpacker world, the Soviet Union was supposed
to allow Victor Kortchnoi's entire family to emigrate
as a sort of public relations stunt. Well, in the USSR
chess was immensely popular, so perhaps this pig
could fly; to hell with our totalitarian principles! Let's
set everybody VK knows free, and then hope that AK
wins. Wait-- there is a problem; Mr. Kortchnoi is a
genuine Russian-trained chess powerhouse. What
if we abandon our evilness, our principles, set all
those people free, and then we *lose*? Yikes.
Mr. Kane's point was that (he says) the Soviets'
*routine practice* was to deny such emigration
requests as those by family members of defector
Victor Kortchnoi. Now, while I don't know about
such things, I do know that Mr. Parr studiously
avoided addressing that issue, instead doing
another of his ad hominem dances, with both feet
flying this way and that. It must be concluded then
that Mr. Kane struck a nerve.
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