Re: 1971: GM Taimanov vs. GM Fischer, the great Qh3 obsession

On Sep 14, 4:59 pm, Taylor Kingston <tkings...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

**If you want to argue, and you do, also do some work!

  This is like Jackie Gleason advising Twiggy to lose weight.

  Jackie Gleason?  Twiggy?  Clearly, there is
a rift here-- a generation gap which is no less
titanic than, well, the Lusitania... the Queen
Elizabeth... or indeed, the Titanic herself.

  No, Phil and I are not that far apart age-wise.


Well, no wonder Mr. Kingston has so much
difficulty understanding Dr. IMnes-- he injects
things that aren't there!

My meaning was that the readership of rgc,
which includes folks who stumble upon this
wretched forum by accident (i.e.: a Google
search on "chess" and "Fischer"), might very
well find themselves strangers in a strange
land, populated by unknown characters with
names like Twiggy or Gleason, teleported
from a bygone era.

You see, old folks are less likely than very
young bots like myself to be computer
addicts or users. Take Senator McCain for
instance; he can dial a telephone or drive a
stick shift car, but does he know how to
send text messages? No. Can he do an
advanced Goggle search, in which
"conflict of interest" AND "Obama" AND
"stock options" are combined? No. Does
he own a Crackberry? Again, no. That's
because he's very old, like folks who use
words like "dowdy", or who make offhand
references to Jackie Gleason. I'm afraid
that apart from Larry Parr and a few
other oldsters, a good number of readers
will have no idea what such terms refer
to.

In any case, my comment had nothing
whatever to do with the relative ages of
Mr. Kingston and Dr. IMnes-- a man who
is quite obviously in a different frame of
reference with regard to space, time,
and most other things.


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