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Chess Federation UNITED STATES CHESS FEDERATION ....,., . -, . I , USCF r-' • £ ~ J •~ j Americ:a'. ella. Periodic:al \ , - .- .. (c.. \. /'ii'• - -- ' . --- - - r \ - I, C \ I, , \, \ ,I , I , . \ I \ . \ • '\ \ I \ •• ~ , '- • - ------. -.. - ,,p LISA LANE (See P. ge 310) or another must have warped his mind 1 am without doubt the leading the· in a way that im pels him to pick lights oretician and player 01 tbe King's Gambit LETTERS and try to prove himseU right by twist· in tbe Uniled States. Does that speak ing around the words of those he of timid ity? argues with. Maybe he can't actually sec AESTHETIC tbe difference between "chess is no I know you will bring to the attention m()Te an art than basebaU" and " being of your readers IbQ .!acts, the nature of The letter which unconvinced !ltr. watched by thousands makes neither the injustice I believe chess owes me Edmund E. Hand wrote you in reply to chess Dor baseball an aTt"_ two state· that. my attempt to clarify the confusion ex­ ments with completely different mean· Anlh&'ny Santasiere isting in his mind as to the meaning ings. And maybe he really does not Bronx, N. Y. of Art in an aesthetic sense shows that understand that Tal naturally referred after rushing t o" Mr. Webster for sue· to the aesthetic eUed of ehcss when cor he is mixed up more lhan ever. His comparing it with that 01 music. Tbis effort to cover up the boner he made in possibility is indicated by the incoherent DIPLOMAT his first letter by picking out the defini­ nonsense of the closing paragraph of his tion "skilled performance, study and ob­ letter. But the mOTe likely explanation Co ngratulations to you on the won· servation" is really too funoy for words. is that be lacks the intellectual integ· derful job you arc doing everywhere! That definition might nicely (it tbe rity without which intelligent argument 1 mean not only conducting tournaments work of a shoemaker or a carpenter or is not possible. expertly and satisfactorily, but, also other bandicraft. But Mr Tal and I editing "Chess Life," ' referred to quite a different sphere of The judge trying Whistler's libel suit art, and no qualification or the term agaiDst Ru skin, after betraying time aud I have just read the interesting and was needed for anyone not completely again that be knew extremely little about amusing article "Chess in the Foreign unacquainted with the field o( aesthetics. art asked Wbistler whether he could Service" by Fred M. Wren. :\Iay I make make him see the beauty of the painting a suggestion? Had Mr. Hand borrowed Webster's un· which Ruskin had maligned and which abridged edition from one o'f his ,teach. was exhibited in the court room. Wbis' He co mplains several times about our ers, he might have discovered the de[ini. tler looked at the judge, then at the Stat.e Department and Foreign Service tion of Fine Art, and he might have painting, then agai n at the judge, and paymg so little attention to our chess realized that I paid high hOmage to chess again at thc painting, and finally reo masters when they play in the foreign when J said that a beautiful combination plied: "No! I think it would be as hope· countrics. This is very important and it is apt to evoke in us a feeling akin to less as pouring music into a deaf man's is well to correct it. The clue to cor· aesthetic emotion. I should have been ear!" recting it came to me when 1 read bis glad to try once more to straighten him sentence about "Congressmen's secre· out, if it were no t (or the malieious tone This is exactl y what I think cA: Mr, Hand and bis letters. Only I didn't taries, and actors, and city garbage col· of his letter which permits the inference lectors" making their trips through Eu· that his many distortions of my state· have to look at them more than once to rcach tnat conclusion. rope. He states th at the missions and ments were deliberate, and not merely consular officcs arc alerted and receive due to his logical deficiency. In either Dr, Edward Lasker such characters with open arms. case 1 shan't waste my time looking at a[lything else he writes. He can readily I think there is probably a very good find out himself how absurd his views reaso~ why they do, It is, simply, that on art are by consulting that great THEORETICIAN AmerIcan businessmen and the others artist whose mother he rashly invoked, go to the trouble of ad\'ising the State in the mistaken assumption that she J have just returned from six months Departme nt that they are making the might serv e to illustrate the collection in Europe, I was shocked to read in the trips, In other words, why not get word of cliches with which he garbs his July issue of CHESS LIFE, Larry Evans' to some friend in the State Department childish notions. The dear lady must reaction to my essay in reference to Re· or to a co ngressman or a senator who have turned in her grave when her name shevsky. really eal'es, every time there is an im· was lakeD in vain by Mr. Hand, the very He states that I do not score points, portant tournament scheduled with an pcrsonifiu tion of the type against which that I am not creative, "timid," etc.- in American master representing us? In hl:r son inveighed in his famous "Ten short, that I am a phony, other words, why Dot impress upon the o'clock" lecture on Art. Let him read State Dcpartment so that we get the that lecture and see himself put in his You .know how I "despise" the point, same treatment? proper place by Whistler, or, to his fur· the rating system, and aU that in chess tber confusion, study Clive Bell 's "Art." that touches on material things. But even It seems to me someone ought to be if 1 despise the point, to say that 1 If 1 seem to deal a bit harshl y with d~legatcd for this job e\'er)1ime a for· have been realistically, materially- a elgn tournament comes up. (I suppose, your Mr. Hand, it is not to punish him phony-a failure-is simply ridiculous! for his laughable attempt to insult ,me. I sad to relate, this could mean you!) know perfectly well that it is not his Co uld I have won six Ma rshall Chess fault that he was born wi thout the Club Championsh ips, at least 20 second CordiaUy, sensitiveness needed to share the aesthe· prizes, one U.S. Open and four N.Y. State tic emotion aroused in his betters by fine ~~i~~~ionshiPs , etc., withOut scoring Roger Williamson art, and that frustrations of one kind Guilford, Co nn, CopyrIght 'U' by Ihe Famll" Du<?s for two or mor e mell1bcra of CHANGE 0'" ADDRESS: FOW' wHb noUce re­ UNITED STATES CHESS FEDIiRATION one family I\vlnll at the same addreu, IDCI\ld ' quired, When ordednll addresa chi n,., pleue CHESS LIFE la pubJ1.olhed monthly by Ute furnlall addresl ,Ienell Ill1presslOD froD) recent United Statu Chen Federation. Second cl&ls lnj: only one l\lbllCription to CHESS LIFE, are 1$5\1e or euet reproduction lncludlD. n\lm­ poat.alle paid at Dubuque, Iowa. at rc""lar ratc. (ue above) plul the followinJl; bert a nd datel on top line. SEND ALL communicaUon. to FRANK rate. tor each add itional m embership: OD e BIADV, U,S, CH!!SS FEDERATION, .. aaJt 11th Street, NIW York 3, N, V. 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