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Paul Rubin

(Sam Sloan) writes:
Paul Rubin knows Tom Dorsch personally and now that we know who
User:Phr is, we understand why User:Phr attacked the biography of Tom
Dorsch with such vehemence, because Tom Dorsch was one of the chess
politicians who raised the dues to $40.

Are you saying I'm buddies with Dorsch, or that I hate him? I can't
figure out which you mean. If I hate him so much, why would I have
supported deleting your attack biography of him?

FWIW, I don't know Dorsch personally unless you count my having seen
him around a few chess events in the early 1990's and spoken to him at
those events for a total of maybe 1 minute, and not about anything
memorable. I did participate in Usenet discussions with him sometime
after that.

User:Phr is completely different from User:Rook_wave. User:Rook_wave
is a German who lives in Germany. He does not seem to know anything
about chess. Paul Rubin, a/k/a User:Phr, on the other hand is a very
well known Bay Area chess personality, who has obvious animosity
towards other Bay Area chess personalities.

I can't think of any Bay Area chess people who I have any animosity
towards, though if by "Bay Area" you include Brooklyn, there's a
certain cab driver there who I have a pretty dim view of right now.

I've never thought of myself as a "well known chess personality" but I
suppose that's in the eye of the beholder. I was a regular player at
the Berkeley Chess Club for a few years and got to some other players
in the area, and I post to rgcp on and off, but that's about it.

He also substantially deleted the biography of Edward G.
Winter who is known for his attacks on Eric Schiller whom User:Phr
does not like.

I do know Eric Schiller slightly in person. My views differ from his
in some areas but I don't dislike him and I like to think I'm on
generally friendly terms with him. My most memorable meeting with him
featured a long and interesting conversation about linguistics.

I felt I should correct these particular errors here on Usenet, though
I expect Sloan is also circulating them on his email list that he used
to spam me with (he finally removed me after repeated requests).