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I was about to say the same thing in substance, Reinhard Scharnagl, when Derek Nalls only 8 days ago insulted Falcon Chess (USP5690334), by starting with 'As a USA citizen...' in Comment this thread. Well, great, I said here inside what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez calls 'the Empire', that leaves me off the hook, since nobody cares what someone thinks whose foremost identity is 'American citizen' in times of loss of civil liberties in North America. However, pertinently also, there may be an association between lack of freedom and development of Chess and other intellectual pursuits, as Soviet Union Chess peaks most difficult political years there up to its end late 1980's. [Hey, see also the muted radicalism, in next to last poem, 27 December 2006, 'Chess Morality XIX: Shadow-Chess' -- substantially after Goethe -- and Venus' lines 35-36: 'Let's pray that ethos dies 'In Gold They Trust'/ And scatter to high heaven their Fool's dust'.]