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Dale Brandreth Story—2nd
Version
Ross Nickel
I first met Dale Brandreth in 1950 U.S. Junior Open Chess
Championship. He had just completed high school and was going to study
chemical engineering. I last saw him in the late 1960s at a local chess
tournament which he visited. He told me that he was working at Dupont, was
married, had children and no longer had time for tournament chess but
planned to work on various chess projects from home at his leisure. He was
then working on a biography of Jose Capablanca, the Cuban world chess
champion of the 1920s. I had played over Capa's games and read his two
books so discussed those with Dale. I had left industry and was employed
at Temple University. That year I had been assigned to Temple's pharmacy
school to assist Edward Fackenthal teaching physics in his last year before
retirement. It turns out that Dr. Fackenthal had been a member of Columbia
University chess club where Capa also hung out and he knew him. I arranged
a meeting between the two. Can you imagine working on a bio of someone
while stumbling upon a person who actually interacted with him? "The
Unknown Capablanca" was published in 1973 and I browsed through it at the
book table of a later tournament. I saw Fackental's name listed in the
book's acknowledgements and also noted my name there which I felt was
generous of Dale as I regarded my contribution as minimal. The book was
praised by the critics and sold out over the years. Dale did not write a
2nd edition but ,I learned, made an arrangement with Dover Publications to
have a paperback made of the original version. Fasting forward to 2016, I
ran across the Dover version completely posted on-line for free. I noted
that my acknowledgement was there but Dr. Fackenthal's was not! Another
book reality shift? Ho hum. I have seen several book changes over the
years. Perhaps, Dr.Fackenthal could not really contribute much to the
narrative and Dale debated in his mind whether he should be listed. Then
the universe split. Anyway, I googled Dales name and came up with a brief
obituary from 2003. I wrote up the story and mailed it to my 3 children.
This year, while visiting the website of the U.S. Chess Federation, I found
a more extensive obit for Dale (
https://new.uschess.org/news/dale-brandreth-1931-2019). He had left
Dupont, gone into teaching and became a chess writer, a collector,
historian, publisher and book-dealer. And he had died in
Sept.,2019!! A double reality shift!!! I sent this obituary to my 3
children reminding them of my 2016 mailing. I was informed that they never
received such a mailing. I went to my Sent email section, looked up 2016,
and found that they were right. There was no record of such a mailing. How
could there be? It contained Dale's 2003 obituary which never occurred in
this reality. But there was residue. Apparently, I thought the story would
be of interest to number of other people and sent it more widely than I had
remembered. Three of these individuals had responded to which I had
returned a response. My 3 responses were in my sent file including the
original "Dale Brandreth Story" which I had not written in this
reality!
Note from Cynthia: I love how you mention that for you,
witnessing yet another reality shift to a book is almost a 'ho-hum'
experience, since these things seem to happen rather often. I know what
you mean! The first few times can be quite jarring and they can feel truly
mind-blowing, and I include a couple of these in my book, "Reality Shifts."
What I find truly fascinating here is that you so clearly recall having
emailed your children in 2016 with news about the Dover edition of the book
that mentions you, but for some reason excludes Dr. Fackenthal--yet they
told you that they never got such a message, and then you also could find
no trace of having sent them such a message. This is truly an
attention-grabbing reality shift! I feel grateful to know that Dale
Brandreth lived longer than you originally witnessed, and now has just
passed away in 2019.
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