As the years have gone by, I have become increasingly ambivalent towards the English Chess Forum due to its conservatism, which is the thing I dislike the most in the chess world. Nonetheless, it does contain professional players, many knowledgeable souls and some established historians too. There is a chess history trivia section of which I am a contributor and recently I have started upping the ante, asking difficult questions which no one can answer. Now I’ve gone a bit cryptic and deliberately asked a question that only I on this planet can answer (the key to it lies in a column I have not yet published on my site)! Not only that, no one is likely to attempt it either, and that includes the most senior chess historians in the world even though they are actually familiar with the person who is the answer. It is worded in such a way, no one is going to get it. Or has McCready got it all wrong and is going to be shot down in flames? Is this nothing more than some sort of Killing Joke? Want to see what it is?
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It’s cryptic and quite unlikely to be answered seeing as no one will know the answer. This will be the second question in the last three that will not get an answer 🙂
What was the other one?
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I should add that this is answerable if you know where to look. It is buried deep within a publication and isn’t googleable. No one answered it though.
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To conclude, is McCready going to get super-tough and ask even harder questions, perhaps in a verbose manner with jargon thrown in? Naughty naughty! 🙂
Mark. J. McCready
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