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Author Re: !Re: Neil Brennen ("Spam Scone") is not real chess historian!
Spam Scone

2005-01-15, 12:46 am


Chess One wrote:
quote:

>
> I do not talk about it all the time!


Others might think differently:

"Most of what you post here, Phil, is incomprehensible
except for the tired name dropping you do." - Steven Dowd

And scarcely write anything here that
quote:

> is not a relatively anodyne report.
>
> As for 'reputation';- I don't give a damn what people think.


Obviously not, since you've persisted in posting nonsense since the
1990s.
quote:

> But sometimes it is necessary to confront imaginary histories with a

fact or
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> two - when the imaginative ramblings depart from any known reality,


By the second paragraph of an Innes post, in other words.

and this
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> is not grandstanding, but a correction of such nonsense that would

otherwise
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> inform chess organisation activities, by saying what is really

experienced
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> by real and named people in the game.


I agree, which is why I provide quotations and specific references.
Meanwhile, we still wait for you to do so.
quote:

> Particulalry (sic) off-the-wall are writers who completely resent and

reject the
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> chess scene as actually observed at first hand.


First-hand from a computer screen in Vermont.
quote:

> This level of informed opinion about what really happens in the world

of
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> chess players is so conspicuously absent from the usual politiking as

to
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> almost completely isolate chess politics from the players of the

game.
quote:

>
> And this is the root and cause of all our trouble, the

marginalistation of
quote:

> chess organisation to the extent that it has NO partners to its

endeavors,
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> and the major contributing factor to all subsequent decay of chess in

our
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> culture, over which it presides.
>
1904[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> You are most unreliable reporter of any subject on any newsgroup to

which
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> you make contributions. You have messed with the context of people's

posts
quote:

> for so long and so consistently, and with such evident and obsessive

malice,
quote:

> that whatever you think is not worth further discussion.


"In short: I have not found a single first-hand refererence nor
artifact
which would verify that the event [Cambridge Springs 1904] ever took
place." - Phil Innes

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