PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES

We note that NM Taylor Kingston, the 1800-rated
but self-proclaimed 2300+ ELO electrode, could not
recollect his own rating within 500 points, which was
one of the sleaziest episodes on this site in recent
years. NM Kingston told us a lot about himself with
that ego-driven lie.

Then NM Kingston told us that we was leaving "indefinitely."
But he hung around and around and around. He was just gasifying.

Now NM Kingston blames Eric
Schiller, the author of dozens of books, for having
forgotten analysis. Keres forgot adjournment
analysis, and Gligoric played into a line of the
Exchange Ruy against Fischer, having recommended
Fischer's line himself in earlier analysis! Botvinnik
overlooked a one-mover in analysis of a Gruenfeld that
gave Bobby a pawn in their 1962 game at Varna. Mieses
overlooked mate in one in some of his analysis.
Zukertort played into the same opening trap twice!
Rubinstein, too, if memory serves.

How refreshing a Ray Keene is when compared
with a NM Kingston or an Edward Winter. In his Chess Life
coverage of the second Spassky-Korchnoi match, Keene condemned a
French line for white, which Spassky then improved
upon dramatically later on. He wrote, if memory
serves, that his earlier note looked "pretty sick" at
this point. It was honest, and the reader appreciated
watching the dialectic within a grandmaster's mind as
he searched for truth. Yes, Keene should not have
been so categorical earlier, but he was speaking his mind.

So, too, with Eric Schiller. If he does not
feel able to evaluate a position, he says so. If he
has an idea, he gives it to us. And yes, he cannot
remember everything he has written, any more than a
much less prolific Gligoric could do.

On the subject of honesty, Eric Schiller may
once have been an 1800-rated player, but I doubt that
he ever lied in the ratty style of NM Kingston at that
time that he was a 2300+ ELO powerhouse. True,
Eric later reached 2300+ or thereabouts in his ELO.

Knowing Eric, however, he has a puckish sense
of humor. Perhaps he will appear here and tell us
that he is only an 1800-rated player.

Second thought, no. "Sandbagger!" the likes of
a NM Kingston would then holler.

And so it goes.