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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: To (mostly) all; Sven especially.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.233136.732@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:31:36 EST
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
- Lines: 75
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- You know, its not that I can't appreciate why so many people here dislike me.
- After, all, they have their cozy little newsgroup. They write about chess,
- sometimes exchange misinformed opinions about politics, and generally while
- away otherwise pointless lives. (Most, not all. I am sure some people here hop
- on merely to relax for a moment and follow their hobby.)
-
- And then, Mr. Wedding hops on and attacks their demi-gods--the GMs and IMs.
- Points out how biased their opinions are and how these 'experts' will sell
- their skills to anybody with $20 and a few years to waste with a game of
- postal chess. Brings up all the sour grapes, and how the readers of this group
- have bought it wholesale.
-
- Then as they are ganging up on Mr. Wedding, I come along. And I'm not just
- viscious against them, I am arrogent to boot. I refuse to bring my chess
- abilities into the area (well, at least until one attorney used his expert
- reasoning skills to determine I did not know how to play, and well I guess I
- just couldn't resist rubbing his nose in such a poorly based decision! After
- all,, he should know better than to ask questions he doesn't know the answer
- to...) and stick to my claim that Benjies article was not false, just weakly
- supported and possibly the result of admitted bias.
-
- And for two weeks, I stick to it. I don't let people drag me off subject. The
- best anyone could do was post that another article on the subject of Fischer's
- skills had been written.
-
- And what pissed people here the most, (aside from my arrogance) was that I
- didn't fall into the normal net-war pattern of spinnng off in all directions.
-
- So, I decided to see just how far these 'humans' would drag this thing if they
- were allowed. I began to argue the legitimacy of the ban on foreign travel as
- applied to chess, and look where we are.
-
- You people don't care about the subjects.
-
- You don't give a damn about truth.
-
- You don't even care if what you are saying would make sense to anyone above the
- age of five.
-
- You do love to hurl unfounded insults.
-
- You are quite skilled at comparing apples to snow tires and claiming they are
- identical.
-
- You are more emotional than the readers of talk.rape.
-
- You think that if you somehow twist the argument from an area until it
- is churned over and over so as to become a grey area, you have "won".
-
- Christ.
-
- But out of all of you who do this, Sven, stand up and take a bow. I have never
- seen anyone who is more willing to change his story, ignore other people's
- posts under the falshood of claiming it is garbage, make asenine comparisons
- AND have the gall to get mad when someone points out how STUPID they are, and
- still claim to seriously want a thred to die.
-
- Sven, the big difference between you and I is that no matter how absurd your
- ideas, comparisons, and posts were; no matter how factually flat-out wrong they
- were, I took the time to point out just how wrong you were.
-
- Every single time.
-
- On the other hand, the BEST we have gotten from you is:
-
- ---------------------garbage deleted
-
- You must be proud.
-
- With a mentality like that, it is no wonder 'your people' are killing each
- other off.
-
- I expect few survivors.
-
- DMC
-