Re: ****rov's Sad Saga

On Apr 29, 2:32 am, "David Kane" <davidek...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >  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.

> The bigger point really was that no rational person
> could expect a chessplayer to influence the
> emigration policies of the Soviet government.


  That's true, but what if the government sometimes
makes exceptions to their usual policies?  Well, of
course this has a serious drawback in that the
"criminal" is in essence rewarded for having
defected.


> The Evans and Parrs of this world are simply
> not capable of dealing with facts which get
> in the way of their simplistic stories.


  Not all their stories are of a simple nature, but
those two certainly cannot deal with any facts
which don't neatly "fit" into their bizarre fairyland
world.  For instance, having long cast Gary
Kasparov as a hero who fights a never-ending
battle for Justice, they must painfully struggle
to somehow deal with the man's cheating poor
little Judit Polgar with his infamous take-back.
Nutters don't have it so easy as you might
think... .


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