MNb wrote on 03/10/09 at 03:23:07:
Perhaps because Blackmar showed them his chess invention? The same may to be true for a certain EJ Diemer. His gambit may reflect a certain sad period in German history. Also note that that said Diemer was an active member of a prominent party of that period. And that party was involved in the killing of some (far?) relatives of LDZ.
How do people like David Gedult and LDZ cope with these facts? Just curious.
In some respects, very inaccurate. The Civil War was fought between 1861-1865; Blackmar invented his gambit around 1880-1881. Therefore MNb's argument is wrong.
Diemer first played his gambit in 1931, shortly before becoming a member of the Nazi Party. I read that he became a Party member in 1932/1933 and that his father threw him out of the house.
The world did not learn of the BDG until Diemer had published his book,
Von Ersten Am Auf Matt, in 1957. From there, playing of the BDG slowly spread. I have the original German edition, and most BDG games by Diemer are from 1930s, late 1940s, 1950s. For the period 1939-1945, the book has no BDGs. Which is not surprising, given the trials of WW2.
Diemer of course, is the reincarnation of Armand Edward Blackmar. Since he left the task of popularizing and improving the Blackmar Gambit unfinished, Blackmar was reincarnated as E.J. Diemer.
Yes, the Nazi Party killed a lot of my distant cousins, who stayed in Poland rather than move to Russia. I did not even know these cousins, but my Mexican cousin does. Her ancestors were from the places where Nazis killed Jews (Czechostowa, Hrubizow, etc.), so that's how I know of them.
My Mexican cousin and I share the same great-great-great-grandfather, Leyzor Zilbermints II (1787-1834). The records show our great-great-grandfathers were brothers. My ancestors eventually ended up in Moscow, while hers remained in Poland.
To be fair, the Nazis killed a lot of other people than Jews. Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, priests, old people, political prisoners, were just a few who died at the hands of the Nazis.
As for David Gedult, I can't speak for him. I know he fought in World War II and was in the French Legion. So that should say something...
For myself, I can only say that when WW2 happened I was not even born as Lev D. Zilbermints. That happened 22 years after the war ended. According to my past-life memories, at the time of WW2, I was an Air Force pilot named James F. Ball, a young first lieutenant-in-training.
My WW2 career did not last very long, though. The airplane I flew went into a fatal spin in the Carribean Sea. Of the 5 people abourd the plane, only one had the foresight to bail out. Myself and the other four
were killed when the airplane crashed into the sea. The year was 1943.
Twenty-four years later, I was reincarnated as Lev D. Zilbermints.
Does that answer your questions?
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