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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: DMC vs. Harper
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.132437.775@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 13:24:37 EST
- References: <92366.142139GUF@psuvm.psu.edu> <1hvqecINNgaf@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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- In article <1hvqecINNgaf@agate.berkeley.edu>, jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
- > I want to see this match. We will all see that DMC is not a chess player
- > and he'll have to go find some other group to annoy.
-
- If YOU are so sure I can't play, why don't YOU accept the challenge???
-
- Jeff, (and all others like him) you sig line should read:
-
- "Another all-talk blowhard"
-
- I am willing to place my checkbook on the line--are YOU? Bruce wasn't,
- Sven is going to do his best to weasel out of it, and YOU will, I bet,
- foloow suit.
-
- >
- > Now both of you are dismayed at the other declining the match which means
- > that each of you are willing to play. Why doesn't one of you name a specific
- > day and time to play a game on ICS. If the other fails to show up, then the
- > argument can be considered settled. So.. How about it!?
-
- If you, or anyone else can answer me two things, I'll gladly play ANYONE on
- ICS:
-
- 1. How is a modem/fiber linkup going to 'prove' I know how to play chess? How
- can ANY of you assure I just won't be dialed in on my 386 while my 486 runs a
- chess program at max skill??? (Use your brains people, you can't.) So, even if
- I win, people like YOU and SVEN and BRUCE will STILL claim I don't know how to
- play.
-
- 2. What does my ability to play have to ANYTHING with the issues I raise? Are
- you 'people' so damned egotistic that you believe only a GM or IM can have a
- valid opinion on an issue??? No wonder you bought Benjie's article
- wholesale--you are too wrapped up in titles to, just for one second, realize
- that a GM is only an expert at ONE thing. And that one thing is playing chess.
- NOT commenting on other GMs games. NOT international politics. NOT the law. NOT
- ANYTHING except playing chess. Suppose Bruce trounces me wholesale? So what?
- Does that prove I don't know how to play? Does it mean the issues on policies
- and law I raised are invalid? If I beat Benjamin Himself, would that make his
- views wrong and mine right?
-
- Have a clue people. You are advancing a lame argument (Fischer should be locked
- up and Benjamin's critique was valid) and you are trying to swerve it into some
- totally unrealted area. Why? Because you hope the beating I take there will
- hurt me as much as my words have hurt you here.
-
- You don't care about truth anymore than Sven does. You people have posted
- several slams against him, but from what I have seen, most of you are exactly
- like him. (Perhaps that is why you dislike him so?)
-
- As for my challenge to Harper. The man postulated an opinion based upon no
- facts. When I pointed out how wrong he was, he called me a liar. Said he still
- thought I didn't know how to play the game. My challenge to him is designed to
- do one thing--hurt him. He either backs down and faces humiliation for not
- having a spine, or he isks paying for a plane ticket.
-
- Sure, I'd GLADLY play him over the fibers IF there were some way of proving no
- one/thing was giving me moves. That way, even if I lost, I would still shame
- him into admitting that his 'expert opinion' was flat out wrong.
-
- I want to humiliate that man to the very last degree. So, if any of you can
- come up with an honesty assurance program, the match WILL happen.
-
- (And, I refuse to accept Harper's claim that he trusts me to be honest. If he
- trusted me, he never would have posted his 'belief' that I could not play a
- second time!)
-
-
- >
- > By the way, anyone got a good library of rating supplements? What's DMC's
- > rating? Elliot?
-
- You won't find me in there. It has been too long since I have played a
- tournament.
-
- Looks like Harper is going to have to go on no information there. (Of course,
- he felt comfortible doing so when he postulated his opinion. So, this should be
- nothing unusual for him.)
-
-
-