Friday, December 21, 2012

It's the season...

Well, it's that time of year again. Maybe there won't be so many presents under the tree this year. Have you been good? Maybe so, maybe not, but either way I hope we can all have the chance to do better next year. Let's hope so.

Anyway, it that time of year again, time to trot out the little piece I wrote almost a quarter of a century ago, in defense of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit:
Many years ago an eight-year old girl, Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, looking for the truth about Santa Claus. The quick response by veteran newsman Francis P. Church, which was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897, has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial. Some ninety-plus years later, in BDG WORLD 37, November 1989, I imagined a letter from Virginia's twin brother, Boris, with similar doubts about the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. I provided a parallel answer...
Here is the letter to Boris. Merry Christmas to all, even those who don't play the Blackmar-Diemer.