| Taylor Kingston 2005-08-25, 8:32 pm |
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parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
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> GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
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nomic systems, you have that right. However, the rest of us have the right =
to consider you an overinflated gasbag.> Taylor Kingston[vbcol=seagreen]
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> 2300+ ELO Grand Coulee, NM Taylor Kingston, the man who
> heliumized his chess rating with 500 points of vapor, is calling this
> writer a gasbag filled to overflowing.
Indeed I am, Larry -- a hot air mass to rival anything out of the
Sahara or Washington DC.
Now, I should not have to keep reminding you, but my NM rating was
not a vaporous fantasy, but was an official fact published in your very
own magazine (Chess Life Postal Master list, 4/1985). Unlike,
apparently, the "master" title claimed by your esteemed ally Sam Sloan.
While we're on the subject of inflated r=E9sum=E9s, Larry, maybe you
will be so kind as to decide something for me. At my local chess club
in Burlington, Vermont, we have had members from many nations --
Russians, Bosnians, Armenians, Czechs, Canadians (both English- and
French-speaking), a Moldovan, a Lithuanian, a Georgian, and other
nationalities. We hold many Swiss-system tournaments. Sometimes, when
the very strongest members have not played, I have managed to win some
of these tournaments. Can I therefore rightly claim to have "won an
international tournament"?
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