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George Duke wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2011 09:10 PM UTC:
'Patzer' appears in east coast N. American chess circles 100 yrs. ago.
Thanks that certainly knowledge of German originated Patzer.  Then sealing
the meaning is association with English 'patsy' one would think. Albert
Einstein would be one of that generation emigrating from Germany, to
explain such coinage.  Interesting 'snafu', a definition of
'verpatzen', is adopted from initials only c. 1940 Armed Forces use and
caught on immediately. Its taboo origin is totally forgetten, so that
traffic snafu and pipeline snafus make everyday common parlance. Chess
snafu?  --See any overcomplex cv design having too many unknowns. F.i.d.e.
Orthodox Chess and snafu become synonymous, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9m-OB_-fE.