My activities concerning the biography of the Estonian chess player Paul Keres have been the following.
In the years 2014–2015, I wrote in Estonian Wikipedia a comprehensive survey of Keres’s war years and the Hague-Moscow 1948 tournament:
“1948. aasta male maailmameistrivõistlused”¹
Vikipeedia
Then, based on my studies, I wrote a more concise paper that I offered as a scientific paper to the Estonian journal Akadeemia.
I published an even shorter and a popular science article in the newspaper devoted to Estonian chess life:
Eintalu, J. (2019)
“Paul Keres propagandavankri ees”²
Eesti maleelu, March 10 (1/19), p 10.
Years after writing my scientific paper, I discovered that the Estonian journal Akadeemia had neither published nor informed me that they would not publish it.
Initially, I made the wrong accusation that Jaan Kangilaski had not forwarded my paper to the editorial.
Finally, however, it turned out that the editorial had decided not to publish my paper, but they “forgot” to inform me about it. The editorial announced that they “could not” publish it but did not explain in what sense and why they could not.
Among other things, my paper claimed that in the collection of essays Paul Keres: Mälestusi, materjale, kirju (2015)³, the most crucial essay of critical American author Taylor Kingston was dropped out, while from his other paper, the essential sections had been dropped out without informing the reader.⁴
Thus, in the context of discussing the history, that collection was a forgery.
Then, I published my essay, which was not published in Akadeemia, on the internet, including the platform Academia:
Eintalu, J. (2021)
“Mida me ei tea Paul Keresest 1938–1948”⁵
Academia
I have not dealt with this topic anymore.
