speaking of objectivity while what i said regarding the copula was a plausible argument for using the upper case the fact is that different people capitalize differently in that particular situation in fact i think i checked more sources later and i'm pretty sure a majority of people edward winter included prefer the lower case in alekhine was white i should really have done that beforehand sorry to distort the picture on a somewhat related note this is something i wanted to tell you and never got a chance to i will suggest that white should really only be used as a substitute for a player's name like our policy says and never as a substitute for the white pieces that latter usage which crops up in phrases like alekhine had white or played white is not documented in any dictionary i checked including the oed it should probably be treated as a colloquialism meanwhile yes ne and nf against the triangle