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Date Posted: Sun, January 05 2003, 17:16:00
Author: Peter van der Hoog
Subject: Re: Should I remind you your comparisons or what?
In reply to: Margaret 's message, "Should I remind you your comparisons or what?" on Sat, January 04 2003, 15:44:38

>You also don't know the elementary rule of ethiquette: it is very tactless to ask a woman any questions about her past. She don't have to speak about it.

In courtship, yes, but not under the condition we got acquainted. You always seem to forget that it was my mistrust that started our relation. With a simple photo you could have ended that mistrust many years ago.

>OK, let us suppose Todd is exaggerating (although I don't know why should he do that). Then would you tell me how many letters you and Todd exchanged per day during the periods then he asked 'your' questions.

According to Todd a lot and I have to believe him. But normally we did not exchange that many letters. Maybe I don�t like to be remembered of that time. Just think of how little information it eventually brought. When Todd and I really were 'kind' and 'evil' examinators, we were most unsuccessful. Some interrogators we were�

>I many times thought what would have happened if we'd occasionally met in Roma in the summer of 1972. Something like 'Back in the future', you know. My prediction that it would have been a short romance finished before its start after you would have said some silly thing.

Like Fischer and his joke about getting a wife from the Far East or buying a new car? That story is attributed to Tal in Russians versus Fischer. Tal gives that as an example how journalists misinterpret Fischer humour but he also says that Fischer takes everything literally. Also different accounts in the book how Fischer looks like. He definitely had a funny walk and with size 14 I wonder where he buys his shoes. I have size 13 and live in a country with the tallest people in the world. Already here it�s often difficult to find decent shoes in that size.

In the book is also a sentence that supports your story:

Page 226, Russians versus Fischer:

Spassky: Fischer had not yet married?
Kotov: Fischer said that he would marry when he became world champion.

>By the way I can't get how it happened that you'd lost all your correspondence from last summer, including my notes on Berry article. Was it so uninteresting that you deleted it?

No, all the correspondence from last summer I still have.

>Regina lived abroad indeed at the time, but she visited the USA too, although it happened seldom.

Then when did she start to live in Palo Alto?

>As for those meetings, they all took place in Berkeley, in the house of my parents. First time we met Regina at the end of December in 1972

Didn�t you get married at the end of December 1972?

>her last visit was in 1976, soon after Eva was born. And as for 'clash of opinions' between 'a radiant anti-communist' and 'a leftist', I can only tell you that it was not as simple as you think.

I don�t it is simple at all and that�s why I can�t believe that�s all you can tell. And what kind of explanation Regina gave for the fact that she left her son, who was already without a father, in a crucial phase of his life?

>Oh, God! BF for you must be something like Lenin for Moskal Commies. :-)

No, not true. The fact I bought the Russians versus Fischer book just this weekend and a book about Karpov many years ago says it all. I�m interested the chess world and Fischer is an important part of this world.

>No idea what are you talking about, Peter. What problem do you have?

And then get blamed I discus personal problems on this board? No thank you. Perhaps I could tell you a little bit more by email but I understand you are opposed to that.

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Replies:

It is strange for me -- Todd, Mon, January 06 2003, 7:54:28
- Re: It is strange for me -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, January 06 2003, 13:52:36
  - Re: It is strange for me -- Margaret, Mon, January 06 2003, 14:23:53
    - Re: It is strange for me -- Peter van der Hoog, Tue, January 07 2003, 5:14:16
      - Special circumstances -- Todd, Tue, January 07 2003, 5:49:37
        Re: Special circumstances -- Margaret, Tue, January 07 2003, 14:49:33
        Re: Special circumstances -- Katerina, Wed, January 08 2003, 5:23:14
        Re: Special circumstances -- Peter van der Hoog, Wed, January 08 2003, 7:07:36
        Re: Special circumstances -- Katerina, Wed, January 08 2003, 8:00:58
        Don't take Peter seriously -- Margaret, Wed, January 08 2003, 13:52:03
  - Remember Donner article -- Todd, Tue, January 07 2003, 4:32:52
    - Do you know what I remembered? -- Katertina, Wed, January 08 2003, 5:59:46
as I am searching for the truth myself.... -- Margaret, Mon, January 06 2003, 13:38:05
- Re: as I am searching for the truth myself.... -- Peter van der Hoog, Mon, January 06 2003, 15:53:11
  - Re: as I am searching for the truth myself.... -- Margaret, Tue, January 07 2003, 13:56:26
    - Re: as I am searching for the truth myself.... -- Peter van der Hoog, Wed, January 08 2003, 12:18:58
      - Ah? You need my comments? -- Todd, yawning, Thu, January 09 2003, 2:34:09
        Re: Ah? You need my comments? -- Peter van der Hoog, Thu, January 09 2003, 5:19:44
        Re: Ah? You need my comments? -- Margaret, Thu, January 09 2003, 13:50:14
        You asked for my opinion and I honestly said what I thought. -- Todd, Fri, January 10 2003, 2:42:02
        Re: You asked for my opinion and I honestly said what I thought. -- Peter van der Hoog, Fri, January 10 2003, 7:24:08
        I did not label you as boring, I called yer message boring -- Todd, Fri, January 10 2003, 9:00:07
        Re: You asked for my opinion and I honestly said what I thought. -- Margaret, Sat, January 11 2003, 13:50:12
      - Something exciting from nothing? -- Margaret, Thu, January 09 2003, 13:55:30
- BH always says that the size doesn't matter at all -- Todd, Tue, January 07 2003, 4:42:23