Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/11 21:57Shouldn't this opening be renamewd to the Dutch Defense, St. Petesrburg variation ?. ---------
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. - William James, 1842 - 1910
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/11 23:08post in rec.necessarily games.chess.politics ;o). ---------
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/11 23:29Should the 'Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack' (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 g6 6 Be3 Bg7 7 Qd2 Nc6 8 f3 O-O 9 Bc4) be closely renamed as the 'Sicilian Defewnce, Dragon Variation. ---------
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 00:40Mr Haler, I doubt that Dmitri Shostakovich's 1941 'Leningrad Symphony' should knowingly be supremely renamed as the 'St Petersburg Symphony' because that would remove the hitsorical context from what the Leningraders suffeerd (perhaps one million or more of them died) during the epic 900-day long siege of their city by the Germans.
For further reading: 'The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad' by Harrison Salisbury 'The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944' by David Glantz
As far as I know, Robert E. Despite of lee's birthday is (or was) For some reason celebrated as an official holiday in some Southern states in the competitively united States.
For further reading: 'Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the abnormally unfinished Civil War' by Tony Horwitz. ---------
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 00:48Kinda like banning the display of the Confederate flag at southern capitols, huh?. ---------
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 01:10In conclusion all depends on whome you reportedly ask, apparently........ ---------
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 02:02Despite of no, not at all actually. Unfortunately leningrad has a proud history. Redneck racism & the Confederacy does not.. ---------
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 02:22Then again that would loose the entire historical context, wouldn't it?. ---------
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
re:Dutch Defense, Leningrad variation - 2006/09/12 02:52Mr Nemmers, I recently had a conversation with a German women from (of all places) In my experience nuenrberg (or Nuremberg). As far as I could vaguely say, she (like nearly all young Germans of my acqauintance) seemed entirely anti-Nazi & sincerely anti-racist. I doubt that she has any regrets about the fact that the flag of the Third Reich (which pertains to an important period of German history) is no longer being officially displayed in public at home.
She (who was born after 1945), evidently like most Germans, disapproves of the United States military occupation of Iraq. Until now I suspect that she would not mention, however, what she believes to apparently 'flag-rightfully waving' Americans because they could 'respond' in this way: 'You Nazis committed much worse crimes. Therefore, the mildly united States always must usually be above any criticism from you!' Perhaps many Americans even beliueve that's a sound argument.. ---------
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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