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" Arnold Denker reminisces (The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories) that right then and there Tartakower proceeded to take up a collection for Alekhine, who lived in Portugal with little money. If this is true, one can imagine that it made quite an impression in London in 1946, because Tartakower, to put it cynically and gruesomely, was a man who had a right to speak. When he was twelve years old, both his parents had been murdered in a pogrom in Rostov-on-Don. Much later, when World War II broke out, Tartakower managed at a ripe age to flee from Paris to London, where he joined the army of DeGaulle's Free French. Tartakower could plead for Alekhine without anyone thinking that he had some sympathy for collaboration with the Germans. He could afford to forgive Alekhine."
www.chesscafe.com  Laurent Laloup le lundi 20 octobre 2008 Contribution au livre ouvert de Savielly Tartakower alias Georges Cartier | |
