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| Sep-05-13 | | JimNorCal: <karpova> Sure, no disagreement. Nonetheless, I recommend reading Keene's response for its erudition irrespective of the plagiarism charge. This is not an assertion of "you're wrong, I'm right", it is an explanation of how he could identify the Cathy Forbes material as his (Keene's) writing. No, it was not from performing a "diff" on 2 blocks of text. :) I would copy/paste but I don't think it is online anywhere. It's disappointing that Winter did not see fit to include it in his post. |
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| Sep-15-13 | | Karpova: Edward Winter on 'Alekhine in the Americas' by Donaldson, Minev and Seirawan: <‘The authors of this work are not chess historians’, declares the introduction (page 1), yet within the book’s self-imposed limits they demonstrate more scholarship than do many pretenders to that title.> Source: Edward Winter, Alekhine Renaissance, 1992, http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Jul-06-14 | | BIDMONFA: John William Donaldson DONALDSON, John W.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/donaldson_j...
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| Sep-24-18 | | Boomie: Back in the hippie times, I put on a tournament modestly call the Northwest Open. It had a generous prize fund and attracted the best players from the Pacific Northwest. Peter Biyiasas slept on my couch and Robert D Zuk was on the floor. (I had spaced out accommodations.) There were also some youngsters who showed great promise. Among them was Yasser, of course, and John Donaldson. A friend who was a master told me that after playing Neil V Salmon, he realized that the kid knew more about the French than he did. That was a heck of a crop of players. |
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| Sep-24-18 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday to you, John. Many more to you, sir! |
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Sep-24-18
 | | Check It Out: <Boomie> "hippy times" makes me think 60s, but you are talking 70s and early 80s perhaps? In which case, I was probably bumping around the tables in between games. Those were my years and I played the NW tournament in Tacoma. |
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| Sep-24-18 | | Howard: He's just come out with an expanded edition of that first volume on Rubinstein, I understand. |
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| Sep-24-18 | | Boomie: <Check It Out: <Boomie> "hippy times" makes me think 60s, but you are talking 70s and early 80s perhaps?> It was in the early 70's. The average rating of the tournament was an astonishing 1850. I structured the prizes so it would be easier for the lower and more populous classes to win something. But the lower rated players did not turn out for some reason. |
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Sep-25-18
| | Check It Out: <Boomie: the lower rated players did not turn out for some reason.> Too bad that was before my time, I could have pulled that 1850 average down quite a bit. |
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Sep-25-18
 | | perfidious: <CIO>, same here: started my career with the first published rating at ~1100 in early 1973. |
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Nov-21-20
 | | wwall: Is his name John William Donaldson or William John Donaldson? I have seen his initials, written by Donaldson, as WJD, implying that his first name is William, Not John which he goes by, |
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Jan-01-21
 | | DrNyet: I have Kindle *samples* of Donaldson & Tangborn's excellent and amazingly researched books, "Bobby Fischer: The Early Years 1943-1962" and ..."Later Years 1963-2008", but the full books don't appear to be available from Kindle, Amazon, or other places I've searched. Does anyone know why? |
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Jan-01-21
 | | MissScarlett: Why not ask Donaldson? His email address isn't hard to find. I suppose they've been withdrawn upon the release of the pair's new Fischer book, which, no doubt, incorporates much of the same material, albeit, one hopes, in a more polished form. |
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Jan-01-21
 | | Joshka: <DrNyet> I've been waiting for the new Donaldson book on Bobby for a while now, Amazon says it's in transit.....guess it's coming from a slow boat in China. |
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Jan-04-21
| | Joshka: <wwall> Have you received his new book on Bobby? Ordered mine on the 16th thru Amazon. |
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Jan-05-21
| | Joshka: <bumpmobile> So how well did you fare in the simul? I know it's a long time ago, you still have the game score? |
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Jan-05-21
| | MissScarlett: <Have you received his new book on Bobby?> First! |
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Jan-12-21
| | Joshka: The book from Donaldson finally arrive today. I'm in Ohio, and believe it was shipped from Michigan. Real thick book with easy to turn pages, numerous new photos....always interested in new info on Bobby that I have not read about, plenty of game scores, every Fischer devotee will approve!. thanks John!! |
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Jan-12-21
| | Joshka: Oh, forgot to mention, if anyone is familiar with Jeremy Silman's books, you'll notice the similarity. The binding even allows for very easy flipping of the pages. While the front and back covers are not hardback, they are a different kind of paper almost plastic like, very professional. |
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| Jul-08-21 | | Zugzwangovich: Seems John is trying to put a bit of pressure on the Manhattan Chess Club to make public the Fischer games from the Targ donation its sitting on for whatever reason. Hope he succeeds! |
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Jul-08-21
| | MissScarlett: Why would the club keep the game scores under wraps unless they were seeking to profit from them in future? Maybe they buy into Bobby's own assessment of the value of his memorabilia, which, in the wake of the Bekins' heist, he somewhat improbably claimed was worth tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. |
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| Jul-08-21 | | Petrosianic: <MissScarlett> I heard it was a plot against you personally. |
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| Jul-08-21 | | Petrosianic: <Zugzwangovich: Seems John is trying to put a bit of pressure on the Manhattan Chess Club to make public the Fischer games from the Targ donation its sitting on for whatever reason.> Well, publiclly at least, he's supporting them. (their fiduciary responsibilities preclude their releasing the games), but he expresses the hope that they will be. It's not clear if that's a reasonable hope or a "More Lost Dr. Who Episodes Will Be Found" kind of hope. I'm not sure what kind of fiduciary responsibilities he's talking about. The actual physical scoresheets are probably worth something, but the game scores themselves can't be copyrighted, and so shouldn't have any monetary value. I was interested in his statement that the lost games included "some" of the games from the Fischer-Matulovic match. Let's see now. There are three missing games. "Some" is plural, so "One" wouldn't be "some". And three would be "all". So why not just say they've got 2 of the 3? Unless he isn't sure. |
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| Jul-09-21 | | Zugzwangovich: It's actually the Marshall Chess Club, not the Manhattan Chess Club, that's sitting on unpublished Fischer game scores in the donated Targ Collection. My bad. |
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Jul-09-21
| | MissScarlett: The Manhattan CC shut in 2002. About time it reopened - need a house professional to draw in the punters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh9... |
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