On Apr 28, 10:03=A0pm, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 YUSUPOV BROKE THE BOYCOTT
>
> =A0 =A0Taylor Kingston is right about the number. =A0It
> was the ninth Lone Pine Open. =A0On the other side of
> the coin, Korchnoi rubbed no salt in any posited wound
> that Artur Yusupov supposedly suffered.
I should have phrased that differently. The "they" I had in mind
when I said "Korchnoi rubbed salt their wounds" was the Soviet
authorities behind the boycott, but instead it was phrased so that
"they" referred to Yusupov and Romani****n.
> Korchnoi beat
> him in a very good game, but Yusupov did a big, brave
> thing when playing Korchnoi and breaking the boycott.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0Yusupov was and is no Karprov. =A0Indeed, Yusupov
> detested the boycott against Korchnoi and was
> delighted to be the man who broke it.
I am glad to know that about Yusupov.
>
> ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > On Apr 28, 10:08?am, "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS by GM Larry Evans (page 100)
>
> > > The matter did not stop there. The Soviet Union suddenly pulled out
> > > two of her players from the Nineteenth Lone Pine Open in America
after=
> > > learning Korchnoi was competing.
>
> > =A0 Either Larry Parr did not copy this correctly from Evans' book, or
> > Evans made a small mistake.There never was a "Nineteenth Lone Pine
> > Open." There were only 11, running annually 1971-1981 (see for
> > example:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Pine_International).
Evans
> > is correct that two Soviet players, Tseshkovsky and Romani****n, who
> > planned to play in 1979, did indeed pull out (or were ordered to pull
> > out) when it was learned that Korchnoi would play. That was the 9th
> > Lone Pine Open, so perhaps "nineteenth" is just an inadvertent typo.
> > =A0 At Lone Pine 1981, Korchnoi arrived only at the last minute,
> > catching the two Soviet GMs Yusupov and Romani****n by suprise. This
> > time they went ahead and played, and Korchnoi rubbed salt in their
> > wounds by winning the tournament.
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