| Sam Sloan 2005-04-27, 12:35 am |
| On 22 Apr 2005 15:49:06 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
<tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote:
quote:
>
>parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
>
> Larry, whether they are outright lies I can't say, but just checking
>some incidents in which I was tangentially involved, I found some clear
>factual errors on Sloan's site. Two relevant examples:
>
>1) At http://www.ishipress.com/winter.htm, Sloan wrote:
> "[Edward] Winter had been attacking Keene's books. The gist of
>Winter's complaints were that Keene wrote opening books, whereas Winter
>wanted more books on chess history."
>
> This is an absurd misrepresentation of Winter's views, as anyone at
>all familiar with the long-running Winter-Keene feud knows. Winter's
>main complaint (an entirely valid one, by the way) is that Keene's
>books are full of factual errors. It has nothing to do with the balance
>between openings and history.
>
>2) At http://www.anusha.com/evanswin.htm, Sloan quotes a letter from
>Winter, published in the 10/2001 Chess Life:
> "Thank you for the opportunity to comment briefly on the recent
>denunciations of me in Larry Evans' column. To start with the latest
>assault, his August 2001 column quotes a reader as alleging that in
>1986 I 'submitted an attack against Keene over 100 pages long'. In
>reality, my text consisted of two pages of factual self-defense (in
>reaction to a series of false attacks on me by Keene), supported by 22
>pages of background corroboration (not all written by me)."
>
> The reader making those allegations was in fact Sam Sloan (Chess
>Life, 8/2001, page 16). Sloan clearly seems to be mistaken about any
>attack "over 100 pages long," and he was notified of this nearly four
>years ago.
> So if, as you claim, Sloan "usually issues immediate corrections,"
>where are his retractions of these falsehoods?
Mr.. Kingston,
You are simply unaware of the facts. I covered this matter as a
newspaper reporter for the Gulf News at the World Chess Olympiad in
Dubai in 1986. I did not see you there. There was a great deal of
discussion and debate on this issue. Mr. Winter's complaint was indeed
that Keene did not write books on chess history. Also, Mr. Winter
constantly nitpicks claiming to have found tiny errors in the work of
Keene and others including Larry Evans, while never contributing
anything himself.
Mr. Winter's "ethics complaint" presented to the 1986 World Chess
Congress was indeed about one hundred pages long. It is true that much
of it consisted of copies of newspaper articles and the like but Mr.
Winter insisted that his complaint and all the newspaper articles be
translated into five FIDE languages including Arabic. This proved to
be a tremendous waste of money to pay all these translators who were
flown in from France and other countries because when it came to the
FIDE Delegate's Floor not one delegate among the more than one hundred
countries represented there supported it.
I am surprised that you are taking Mr. Winter's side in this dispute.
Have you ever mt Mr. Winter? I doubt you have because nobody has ever
met him. His name is probably a pseudonym.
Sam Sloan
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