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Talking of copyright, his selection of ten best games repeats an old sin of his which is to reproduce his old notes, but not say where they were originally published. I believe that numbers 3, 6, 9 and 10 for instance are from the BCM, and my source credits 7 and 8 to Informator. (Oddly he does credit the BCM for game 4 where the notes are not his, and game 5 in passing. But Ray always does things by halves.)
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Hi Justin,
I know you are just going to love the irony in this. I spotted it at chessgames.com a few days ago.
http://www.chessreference.com/StauntonC ... /01-19.JPG
The London Illustrated News, January 1861.
Howard Staunton replying to a reader R.K. (!) who sent him in a problem.
"R.K. - The problem you have sent as original has been published a dozen times at least since it first appeared, four hundred years ago."
I know you are just going to love the irony in this. I spotted it at chessgames.com a few days ago.
http://www.chessreference.com/StauntonC ... /01-19.JPG
The London Illustrated News, January 1861.
Howard Staunton replying to a reader R.K. (!) who sent him in a problem.
"R.K. - The problem you have sent as original has been published a dozen times at least since it first appeared, four hundred years ago."
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In the second edition of his book on Tony Buzan (2017), Raymond Keene is still describing himself as "the Chairman of the English Chess Association."
Some years ago, I enquired about the Association on this Forum (viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6117), but facts proved hard to find. So I should like to ask again now: who are the Association's officers and members, and what are its activities?
Many thanks.
O.G. Urcan
Some years ago, I enquired about the Association on this Forum (viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6117), but facts proved hard to find. So I should like to ask again now: who are the Association's officers and members, and what are its activities?
Many thanks.
O.G. Urcan
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I don't think there's anything that can be added to the earlier thread.O.G. Urcan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:40 amSo I should like to ask again now: who are the Association's officers and members, and what are its activities?
His notes to games are recycled from those written decades earlier, the same principle may well apply to notes about the author on the back of books.
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Some years ago you seemed quite incapable of understanding the simple answer that there aren't any. There are no officers, no members and no activities. Even googling it largely turns up articles from Kingpin, Edward Winter etc (and a link on the Basildon Chess Club page that goes to the ECF website). It is a name on some notepaper, nothing more.O.G. Urcan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:40 amIn the second edition of his book on Tony Buzan (2017), Raymond Keene is still describing himself as "the Chairman of the English Chess Association."
Some years ago, I enquired about the Association on this Forum (viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6117), but facts proved hard to find. So I should like to ask again now: who are the Association's officers and members, and what are its activities?
Many thanks.
O.G. Urcan
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It's possible Andrew that it's you who is incapable of understanding, and that the purpose of the question was to demonstrate the answer that you've just given.Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:22 amSome years ago you seemed quite incapable of understanding the simple answer that there aren't any. There are no officers, no members and no activities. Even googling it largely turns up articles from Kingpin, Edward Winter etc (and a link on the Basildon Chess Club page that goes to the ECF website). It is a name on some notepaper, nothing more.O.G. Urcan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:40 amIn the second edition of his book on Tony Buzan (2017), Raymond Keene is still describing himself as "the Chairman of the English Chess Association."
Some years ago, I enquired about the Association on this Forum (viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6117), but facts proved hard to find. So I should like to ask again now: who are the Association's officers and members, and what are its activities?
Many thanks.
O.G. Urcan
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Possible but on this occasion I doubt it.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:24 am
It's possible Andrew that it's you who is incapable of understanding, and that the purpose of the question was to demonstrate the answer that you've just given.
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Do you have any particular reason for saying so?
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If Mr Urcan knows full well that the English Chess Association does not exist in any meaningful shape and form what would be the point of repeatedly posting on an unofficial forum to `demonstrate an answer`.
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Being based in Singapore, perhaps he's looking for local knowledge.Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:06 pmIf Mr Urcan knows full well that the English Chess Association does not exist in any meaningful shape and form what would be the point of repeatedly posting on an unofficial forum to `demonstrate an answer`.
If the English Chess Association still exists, even if only in the form of a Simpsons lunch club, it keeps an extremely low profile. It is not however in Ray's most recent claims to fame on his new website.
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Irony, dear boy, irony. It is Keene who repeats the claim - in 2017Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:06 pmwhat would be the point of repeatedly posting on an unofficial forum to `demonstrate an answer`
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'Professor' Frederick Trowman-Rose has a Linkedin page stating he is Chairman at the Commonwealth Development Trust.
However...
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... ng-history
...reveals that it is a dormant (for a decade) company with no assets.
Not something I'd boast about.
However this profile page...
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stoc ... Id=3157494
...indicates his business activities are mainly in Florida Real Estate and Masonic Regalia.
Sounds impressive?Chairman
Commonwealth Development Trust
May 2008 – Present 10 years 5 months
The Commonwealth Development Trust aims to offer practical aid programmes to the smaller countries in the British Commonwealth. Programmes include: education, health, environment and social and economic development.
However...
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... ng-history
...reveals that it is a dormant (for a decade) company with no assets.
Not something I'd boast about.
However this profile page...
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stoc ... Id=3157494
...indicates his business activities are mainly in Florida Real Estate and Masonic Regalia.
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It's a claim he's actually entitled to make and he's not the first person in history to tart up his CV with meaningless titles. Of course those of us who know there was only a brief attempt at an English Chess Association thirty years ago think he looks silly. By continuing to take the claim seriously (or at least giving the impression he does) Mr Urcan looks even sillier. Of course by attempting to tell him so I'll probably end up looking sillier still.David Robertson wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:13 pmIrony, dear boy, irony. It is Keene who repeats the claim - in 2017Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:06 pmwhat would be the point of repeatedly posting on an unofficial forum to `demonstrate an answer`
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Why do people ask rhetorical questions?Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:06 pmIf Mr Urcan knows full well that the English Chess Association does not exist in any meaningful shape and form what would be the point of repeatedly posting on an unofficial forum to `demonstrate an answer`.
Ain't that the truth.Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:44 pmOf course by attempting to tell him so I'll probably end up looking sillier still.
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More worryingly Trowman-Rose appears here
http://www.vitezirend.com/rovatok/hirek ... liverpool/
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http://www.vitezirend.com/rovatok/hirek ... liverpool/
For the Vitezi Rend read thisFollowing this Attila Babenyecz, Miklos Bartha, Dr Zsolt Bodnar, Csaba Horvath de Csapod, Eva Szakaly, Prof marques Frederick Trowman-Rose and Ilana Zsigmond de Lemheny were invested into our Order, who took their solemn Oath. On their behalf Dr vitez Zsolt Bodnar thanked the Order, promising future work for it. This was followed by appointments and awards which contained the appointment and award of vitez Szabolcs Losy de Visi as High Captain in the United Kingdom.
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What Is Vitézi Rend, The Ally Of The Nazis That Sebastian Gorka ‘Joined’
March 16, 2017 By Lily Bayer and Larry Cohler-Esses
The Hungarian group was established as a loyalist group by Admiral Miklos Horthy, who ruled Hungary as a staunch nationalist from 1920 to October 1944.
A self-confessed anti-Semite, Horthy imposed restrictive Jewish laws prior to World War II and collaborated with Hitler. His cooperation with the Nazi regime included the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews into Nazi hands.
The group’s mission emphasized not only loyalty to Hungary and nationalist ideas, but also an ideology of racial superiority. One of the original aims of the Vitézi Rend was to “ensure such might to the Hungarian race, which with tremendous power strikes every subversive state and anti-national movement,” Horthy said in a speech to new members in 1921.
The Quisling group to which Gorka, 46, purportedly belongs is a reconstitution of the original group on the State Department list, which was banned in Hungary until the fall of Communism in 1989.
His association with the group first arose when he was spotted wearing a medal issued by the group. He claimed he wore it as a tribute to his father.