| Taylor Kingston 2005-04-27, 7:45 pm |
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parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
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> RICHARD LAURIE REBUTS TAYLOR KINGSTON'S VERSION OF EVENTS
With regard to my correspondence with Mr. Laurie, I stand by my post
above, under the heading "Parr opens mouth, inserts foot."
I will add a few further replies:
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> Just about the only thing Taylor Kingston got right is the date that
> Richard Laurie's item in Chess Life, which was indeed March 2002.
I'm very glad to see Larry Parr finally admit he got something wrong.
Earlier in this thread he said it was an "indisputable fact" that the
letter in question appeared 9/2001.
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> Here's the last part of the item in question from Evans On Chess:
> Q. Finally, I don't know who Taylor Kingston is and I don't recall
> much about his Chess Life article (in May 1998) except he denigrated
> your ability to analyze five Keres-Botvinnik games to show that Keres
> was coerced.
As I said earlier, Mr. Laurie is quite wrong. My article says no such
thing. Interested readers can verify that by reading the article at:
www.chesscafe.com/text/kb1.txt and
www.chesscafe.com/text/kb2.txt
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> Mr. Kingston's latest diatribe ignores the next portion of Laurie's
> letter because Mr. Kingston surely did know of the dispute between
> Winter and Evans:
> "Finally, I am troubled by your bald assertion that you are not aware
> of the battle between Evans and Winter.
Absolutely false, another of Mr. Laurie's bizarre fabrications.
Again, he attributes to me something I never said. I have not only been
aware of the Evans-Winter feud since about 1998, I have been involved
in it to some extent, as many readers here know.
Note, for example, that I am cited by Winter his anti-Evans letter in
the 10/2001 Chess Life. Winter asked my permission for this before the
letter was published. Obviously, then, it is on public record that I
knew of the "battle between Evans and Winter" no later than October
2001. It would be absurd to say otherwise in March 2002.
I am troubled because I have
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> known for months that Larry Evans contacted you in preparing his
> rebuttal to Mr.Winter'sremarks as printed in Chess Life, October
2001.
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> Further, it is my understanding and has been for months, that you
told
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> Evans you sided with Winter on the whole. Please clear up this
seeming
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> contradiction."
I just did. There is no contradiction. I never said what Mr. Laurie
claims.
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> Finally, when contacted today, Mr. Laurie authorized me to issue this
> statement on his behalf:
>
> "Mr. Kingston's memory is extremely faulty.
I agree that my memory is nowhere near as creative as Mr. Laurie's.
If that is a fault, I will just have to live with it.
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> "Then he said he contacted the editor and asked if it would be okay
for
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> him to say I had changed my mind.
Another falsehood. I never asked Peter Kurzdorfer, then editor of CL,
to do any such thing. Nor anyone else on the CL staff.
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> All anyone has to do is read Kingston's
> article in Chess Life to see that he denigrated Evans' ability to
> analyze by saying Nunn was the better player.
Again, interested readers may see what I actually said at:
www.chesscafe.com/text/kb1.txt and
www.chesscafe.com/text/kb2.txt
Taylor Kingston
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