| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-05-31, 3:31 am |
| STOP WHINING, MR. KINGSTON
<It matters when you misrepresent the facts, and denigrate someone's
work unfairly.> Taylor ("whiner") Kingston
Who denigrated his work? Certainly not GM Larry Evans or this
writer. I stipulated on several occasions that his work was decent
journalism, though no better than that.
Larry Evans praised him in Chess Life, September 2001: "Mr.
Kingston, whose work I generally admire, probably is unfamiliar with a
syndicated column I wrote in 1999 entitled 'An Old Scandal.'"
In 1996 GM Evans' topic in The Tragedy of Paul Keres was
primarily the chess games between Botvinnik and Keres. He reached a
conclusion that Keres was forced to take a dive.
In 1998 Mr. Kingston's topic was primarily what was known
about the intrigues surrounding 1948. He reached no conclusion. The
second time around he agreed with GM Evans.
The two men approached the subject from divergent paths. Mr.
Kingston's fault was not to research his main path more carefully by
moving beyond a few printed sources. GM Evans' fault was to forget a
discrete fact about a matter that was not central to his theme.
Mr. Kingston would do well to expect more of himself rather than
to continue whining and offering excuses for a shortcoming that he
evinced -- a shortcoming that prevented a decent piece of work from
being much better.
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