From: "Samuel H. Sloan (my real name)" <VanUpp <at> AOL <dot> COM>
Date: 30 oct 1995
Subject: Re: Sloan vs. Hodges

The World Chess Champion, Alexander Alekhine, was a Nazi who wrote Nazi
Propaganda for the Germans during World War II.

Still, nobody burns his books. He was one of the greatest chess players of
all time and his games are played and studied by every aspiring chess player
the world over.

One thing has nothing to do with the other.

However, if you want to burn the books of Alekhine, feel free. Go to the
local chess book store, buy his "My Best Games of Chess" in three volumes,
and burn them. The publisher will be happy.

There is, by the way, a new book out with translations of Nazi propaganda
written by Alekhine. The author of the book is Francis X. Mar. The
information about what Alekhine actually wrote and did for the Nazis has been
long supressed for years.

No, I have not seen or read the book yet. I have just heard about it.

Sam Sloan