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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Re: Chess
Message-ID: <871@ellie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 12:58:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 12:58:05 1986
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> In article <102100007@haddock.UUCP> trb@haddock.UUCP writes:
> >Directing
> >tournaments, editing newsletters, being a chess federation official,
> >etc, are commendable activities and they have nothing to do with
> >chess, the game.  
> 
> Well, Andrew, thanks for the reply. Your opinion is probably typical
> of most chess players, especially in regard to directing tournaments,
> editing newsletter, etc. ... Therefore, few players take the time or
> effort to become TD's (or editors, etc.), because they don't understand
> what it has to do with "the game."

Most players don't realize that directing can be as much fun as playing.
Those fifth-round Harkness-Morrison pairings can be harder than a Sam Loyd
3-mover!

And where else do you get to write on the walls?

	"Grandmister Oinkovitch, what do you think of Mecking?"
	"I don't know--I've never mecked!"
					--Kloony
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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