| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-05-30, 8:32 pm |
| PARSER BLAIR'S BLOATED EGO
Louis Blair makes two false statements and one not overly
bright.
First, he states that I do not "want" to provide the date when I
spoke with Larry Evans about Botvinnik's statement on Stalin. The
evident truth is that I would LOVE to give a precise date and dig it
out of the electronic graveyard. But any date I might give could be
off by years unless backed by printed words.
Secondly, the Parser falsely writes that he desisted from asking
his weakminded Sosonko question because I had answered it. Wrongo.
That's a fairly obvious lie on his part. He says that the sensible and
honest thing to do is to move on after getting the answer. Nope. The
sensible and honest thing to do is to acknowledge that a
satisfactory answer has been tendered and then state that the intent is
to ask yet another question.
That has been his record on this forum. When you answer one
question, then there's a follow-up. When you answer that question,
there's another follow-up. And so on, etc., etc.
Finally, Mr. Blair claims that the stuff published on this forum
is "writing." It is obvious enough that the word "writing" has a
number of connotations. Is his stuff -- his preposterous queries and my
40-word-a-mintue responses -- writing?
When I speak about writing on Keres-Botvinnik, I mean the same
thing as writing about, say, the late Arnold Denker. Nothing I put
here could be called writing about GM Denker, though I have mentioned
him on many an occasion over the years. This is the electronic
graveyard. My "writing" about GM Denker is what has appeared in books
and in numerous articles.
In that sense I have not written on Keres-Botvinnik 1948 and have no
intention of doing so in the future unless some archive becomes
available.
This distinction between the Net and hard copy is not
completely ironclad. People put books online that will later appear in
hard-copy; the same goes for articles. But the Parser's stuff here is
not writing; and everything except what I published on Winter and a
couple of other things online has not been writing in the sense that a
published author would use the word.
In the evident sense used here, Parser Blair has likely never
written a thing on chess, unless one counts those unreadable letters in
the old Chess Notes. He make think he is "writing" on this forum but
only an egomaniac could imagine that.
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