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Author Re: Standards in Chess Journalism
The Historian

2006-08-02, 10:46 pm


parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
quote:

> SATIRE AND PREDICTIONS
>
> <"Dear Mr. Parr,
>
> Thank you for your recent submission, Beyond the
> Toilet Police: The Threat of Drug Testing in Correspondence Chess.
> While it is a considerable piece of work, and must have taken you
> hours to cut and paste all those newsgroup postings, it probably is
> not an article our readers would find interesting. We haven't heard of
> anyone suggesting ICCF will start testing for drugs in the World
> Championship Finals. May we suggest you approach Chess Cafe about this
> article? They have a Bulletin Board on which you could post it.
>
> As for your other suggestions, we are at a loss as
> to who to pass them on to, as we have no one at
> The Campbell Report named "The Historian".> -- Neil Brennen
>
> I sent nothing to the Campbell Report on drug
> testing in correspondence chess, and the assertion
> that I did is either The Historian''s
> satire or a lie.


Larry's legendary sense of humor bites the dust.

Brennen 1 - Parr 0

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