| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-04-25, 8:49 pm |
| MR. KINGSTON ASKS BUT WON'T ANSWER
<The letter Edward Winter wrote attacking me should not have been
published in Chess Life, because Chess Life could not possibly have
called Edward Winter on the phone to confirm that he wrote it, because
no contact number for Edward Winter exists.> Sam Sloan
Taylor Kingston's technique is to keep asking new questions
without answering old ones. In my initial response, I wrote:
<Why, for example, didn't Mr. Winter provide the entire context?
Perhaps he could have written, "My complaint as it emerged through the
translation process was a thick sheaf of papers which went to the FIDE
Delegates. I suspect that Mr. Sloan was referring to this bundle, but
he was wrong to state that the entire bundle was discrete evidence. It
was a thick bundle of repeated evidence in several languages." That
would have been full disclosure. Agreed?
The readers of Chess Life could then have judged for themselves whether
Sam engaged in material, as opposed to technical, misrepresentation. As
the matter played out, it was Mr. Winter who was evidently dishonest,
not Sam Sloan.>
I already said I don't intend to rehash the issue of Edward Winter's
screed which was so favorable to Campomanes that he distributed it to
all FIDE nations. If Mr. Kingston wants to reopen this issue, then
let's also reopen the attack his hero launched against GM Larry Evans
in Chess Life (October 2001, page 7). Here's how one reader summed it
up at the time on rgcp:
Subject: Re: Winter Eviscerated in Chess Life
From: graemecree@aol.compost (Graeme)
Date: 8/31/2001 5:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: <20010831200647.19326.00007506@mb-mc.aol.com>
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exchange of letters because Mr. Winter had no real case. The guy can
dish it out but he can't take it.>>
I thought it was incredible that Winter could spend almost two entire
columns while saying virtually nothing. His entire letter could be
condensed down to "I think Evans is stupid and dishonest. His other
enemies don't like him either. Sorry there's not enough space here to
actually make a case for what I'm saying." Evans seemed to have no
problem making specific statements in his two columns worth.
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