Keene reviews Kingston
TAGGED AND BAGGED
RK [GM Keene] lied about Taylor Kingston's
review of one of his books, infering that TK was
not strong enough to spot pxN (very deep!),
and that a certain chess game is so well known that
even a duffer book reviewer ought not to have failed to
point out the flaw in -- wait for it -- GM Andy Soltis' work!
Nevermind the fact that a GM, Soltis, missed this himself.
And nevermind that this particular game is not really all that
famous. And nevermind that this was a lowly ad hominem
style attack on the messenger, Taylor Kingston, who
commented on the intro to that game -- not the moves themselves.
Tagged and bagged, Mr. Keene. -- Help Bot (Greg Kennedy)
Greg Kennedy never knows when to have done. He
garrulously prattles, which he confounds with wit, and
one always ends up waiting for a posting to end.
Nick Bourbaki's point about Keats is obviously
true, and Mr. Kennedy lacks the mother wit to
understand that those who write unsuperseded history
also make it. Only those who write have stories to tell.
Mr. Kennedy now tells us what he meant with his
nasty little tagged-bagged aside tossed at British GM
Ray Keene. Mr. Kennedy tells us in the absence of
reading on his part that Duras-Teichmann is not a
well-known game. In truth, it is one of the more
famous efforts in all of chess history. Ray's point
about Andy Soltis was precisely this: Soltis, for
once and very rarely, nodded; Taylor Kingston plonked
his noggin on the table out of sad habit. Which he
did and does.
GM Keene has given a short course in chess
history to NM Kingston. Mr. Kennedy, the snipe who
hates his job in Indiana nearly as much as he hates
grandmasters, again attacks one of his betters.
In a similar manner our lad from Indiana attacked Larry
Evans for being part of a conspiracy to "brainwash" the American
public into accepting Fischer's conditions against Karpov in 1975
as fair when exactly the opposite was true. GM Evans was virtually
the only columnist in Chess Life who branded Fischer's conditions
as unfair. Needless to say, Mr. Kennedy is silent about that boo-boo.
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