another chess-related query

[Tatiana Filimonova]

I think the "тебя" here is the impersonal "you" or "one."  "Не лизал" in
this case means "не подлизывался," i.e. he would not flatter  (or "suck up
to," as the register suggests) those who won. Botvinnik says that Lilienthal
was the only one who would not gloat at the opponent's loss and "suck up" to
them in case they won.

Tatiana

2010/5/17 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at alaska.net>

> I've been getting some great help from SEELANGS recently, so could you
> please give me some opinions on another phrase:
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> И сам Ботвинник, хорошо знавший, что Лилиенталь помогал его соперникам
> Смыслову и Петросяну в матчах за чемпионский титул, говорил о нем как ни о
> ком другом: <<Андрюша - единственный, кто никогда не злорадствовал, если ты
> падал, и не лизал тебя при успехах. И вообще он не способен был держать
> камня за пазухой. Второго такого шахматиста я не встречал>>.
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> Does не лизал тебя при успехах refer to Lilienthal's successes or to the
> opponent's successes? In other words what's не лизал тебя, is it about not
> gloating as in the first part of the sentence, or is it about not knocking
> an opponent's successes?
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> Thanks,
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> Sarah Hurst
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