Makes a pitiful impression

Last week's plagiarism, from Ray's Times column of 10 June 2013, was a long way from being Ray's best work in the field. As if to make up for it, he came up with a much better effort the following day, when annotating the thirty-second game of the first world championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.

Here's his Times column for 11 June 2013.

Below is the second volume, published by Everyman in 2009, in the series Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess

in which the same game, with the notes that Ray plagiarised, appears on pages 176-183.

1. Black's move nine.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

A weakening what?

2. Black's move fourteen.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

3. Black's move twenty-two.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

Oh, Ray seems to have forgotten to mention Yuri Averbakh, plagiarising yet another innocent bystander in his rush to copy Mr Kasparov.

4. White's move twenty-three.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

And indeed Josif Dorfman.

5. Black's move twenty-five.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

6. Black's move twenty-seven.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

And Averbakh again. "Makes a pitiful impression" indeed.

7. White's move twenty-eight.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

8. White's move thirty-seven.

Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess:

Times:

9. Black's resignation.

Up to here Ray's been in danger of plagiarising more commentators than he's produced words of his own, but the final note does appear to be Ray's (the note in Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess is too long not only to plagiarise but to reproduce here).

Times:

That was Ray's effort for 11 June. Before very long we'll be looking at what Ray did on the twelfth, but we'll also raise an eyebrow at the very fact that Ray, even given his own prodigious laziness, bothered to plagiarise notes for this particular game.

Why express surprise that Britain's most notorious plagiarist engages in plagiarism? Dogs bark, cats meow, Ray plagarises.

Of course. But in this case he didn't even need to plagiarise, given that he'd already got his own set of notes for the 1984-5 match.

I don't know why he didn't just recycle them, seeing as he'd already used some of them more than once already.

We'll be getting on to that, too.

[Thanks to Pablo Byrne]

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