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THUS SPAKE DR. DOWD

But one thing I do find impressive Larry, is how you are *almost* able to
adapt a more restrained writing style when you post as cynic. Having read
student papers for 25 years and needing to recognize personal style to
combat plagiarism has made me able to spot such deceptions a bit
easier...When it comes to being bad, you are very good. -- Rynd-Dowd

Here's betting that Rynd-Dowd won't put his money where his mouth
is. I'll offer him the same lie detector wager that Neil Brennen and
Taylor Kingston rejected.

I have never posted under any screen name other than Parrthenon
and Fidelis.

We each agree on a master; we each agree on a police polygraph
tester, we each agree to put $10,000 in escrow; and I take a polygraph
test. If I emerge as any bogus name that he cares to pick, I get his
dough and keep mine. Vice-versa if I lose. I do not know the identity
of Cynic. I will assert that my identity here is known and that I am
none of the pseudonyms he accuses me of. I already know who will win
this bet.

Such a wager would possibly pick up some news coverage, and I
will be Stateside later in the year. It is a doable deal.

But Rynd-Dowd and Dowd-Rynd has the right not to put up and not
to shut up. Which is the way it will be.

One might better call them, given the dumbed-down approach he takes to
writing chess books, the immoral works of Larry Parr...When my son was 6,
he also found "The Big Book of Fishes" a delightful read. Hardly reason
enough to recommend it to others. -- Rynd-Dowd

Rynd-Dowd implies that I don't believe ChessCafe has a right not to
carry my books, including works with Lev Alburt and Arnold Denker. He
is wrong. Pace Mike Murray, I would say that Hanon Russell can choose
not to sell works by this
writer or by Eric Schiller and Ray Keene. Larry Evans, too.

The other side of the coin is that we are free to hold the
candle to his business foot, so long as it doesn't involve governmental
coercion or other violence.

But it is a business decision. If your local bookstore doesn't carry a
book, and doesn't want to, is that "censorship"? I really don't see it
as such. -- Rynd-Dowd

Readers interested in the Denker-Parr remembrance, The Bobby
Fischer I Knew and Other Stories, will find chapters serialized in
Chess Life from the mid-1990s. The book is available from
Hardinge-Simpole Publishers. It was selected USCF-ACF book of the year
in 1996. Ray Keene wrote that it book reminded him of "Damon Runyon
stories," and Lev Alburt said it was "one of the finest memoirs of its
kind." He spoke of it being "alternately sad and happy, serious and
witty, insightful and self-effacing," which is more than can be said
for this writer quoting from these folks. Larry Evans in a foreword
spoke of how the "book radiates life."


Given Larry Parr's "six lies before breakfast" approach to life, I would
seriously doubt a polygraph's ability to shed any light on the matter.