For readers interested in the actual facts, I refer them to the first
post in the thread "Falling into Holes with Parr and Sloan" on
rec.games.chess.misc and rec.games.chess.politics.
I will add that the "greasy weasel" referred to below was Larry Parr,
not Larry Evans as Sam's misquote would have you believe.

Sam Sloan wrote:
Taylor Kingston caught lying again, says that his Elo rating was 2300+

On 5 Jun 2005 17:23:27 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
wrote:

Interesting, if not really relevant to historical issues. Still, on
the subject of playing strength, I have never claimed to be any great
player, but I think with a peak Elo of 2300+, and a top ranking of, as
I recall, #46 in the country, I was a tad better than "weak."

This posting has generated more than one hundred comments in less than
a week because Taylor Kingston has a published USCF rating of 1811 and
it never happens that a 2300 player drops to 1811.

Taylor Kingston has a list of chess personalities he attacks all the
time. It Is a remarkable coincidence that his list is identical with
the list of chess personalities that Edward Winter attacks all the
time. That list includes Ray Keene, Larry Evans and Eric Schiller, who
happen to be the three most prolific and widely read chess authors in
the world. Accordingly, I should be honored that my name has been
added fairly recently to this list of famous chess personalities who
are constantly attacked by Edward Winter and Taylor Kingston.

For example, about Chess Icon Larry Evans, Taylor Kingston wrote,
"Evans is grossly, amazingly dishonest. ?c Today is my 30th wedding
anniversary, and I would rather be celebrating it with my wife, than
arguing with a greasy weasel."

It is interesting that Taylor Kingston refers to his 30th wedding
anniversary, because Edward Winter has been attacking Ray Keene for
the past 30 years. The man I met a few years ago who identified
himself as Taylor Kingston seemed to be much younger than I imagined
Edward Winter to be, but now it seems that the age difference may not
be a big hole in my theory that Taylor Kingston and Edward Winter are
actually the same person.

Taylor Kingston asserts that he is stronger than 99% of the chess
players in the world and therefore he is not weak. However, I did not
compare him to the great unwashed masses. I compared Taylor Kingston
to Grandmaster William Lombardy. What I actually wrote was:

Grandmaster William Lombardy has since told me that that he
knew that the games were fixed ever since he became a strong player in
the early 1950s because of the numerous suspicious moves in these
games. Unfortunately, Taylor Kingston is such a weak player that he
cannot understand these simple and obvious points.

Taylor Kingston is simply unable to comprehend his own inadequacies as
a chess player. He is like a man with a short penis who thinks that
his penis is long. Taylor Kingston thinks that his opinion about chess
positions are just as valid as those of Grandmaster Lombardy. He does
not comprehend that chess players pay money to buy books and magazines
by grandmasters like Evans and Lombardy, whereas nobody would pay a
penny for the chess opinions of an 1811 player like Taylor Kingston.

Regarding his claim to have been a 2300+ Elo rated player, after it
was pointed out that the highest his USCF rating has ever been was
1853 and he has never has an Elo rating, Taylor Kingston said that in
1985 he had an 1806 correspondence rating which was the equivalent of
2300.

This is a lie for many reasons. Here are a few of them.

The USCF correspondence ratings are the old Chess Review ratings which
the USCF purchased in the late 1960s. These are not Elo ratings at
all. Under that system, a player got to select his own initial rating.
A player could start himself at 600, 900, 1200, or 1500. When I
played, I always started my rating at 600, preferring to start at the
bottom and work my way up. My opponents often complained that I was
stronger than my rating. Somebody like Taylor Kingston who wants to
prove how great he is could start himself at 1500 and without much
difficulty reach 1806. Nobody would claim that this was the same as a
2300 Elo rating.

Also, Taylor Kingston claimed that he was the number 46 rated player
in the entire country. Another lie. There are many correspondence
chess federations. There is the CCLA, the ICCF and the APTC among
others. Serious correspondence players play with the CCLA or the ICCF,
not with the USCF. Being the number 46 correspondence player with the
USCF probably does not even make the player in the top two hundred in
the country.

Another gaffe that Duncan Oxley pointed out is that Taylor Kingston's
correspondence rating is only 2037.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12360630

Taylor Kingston says that this is his rating from 1985, as he has not
played since then.

However, 1985 is the same year that Taylor Kingston said that he had a
2300 + Elo rating. Apparently, Taylor Kingston does not see the
difference between a 2300+ rating and a 2037 rating.

USCF ratings are not Elo ratings. Elo ratings are FIDE ratings which,
until 1984, were done by Professor Elo himself.. USCF ratings were
originally calculated under the Harkness System and now are under the
Glickman System. Neither of these systems are similar to the Elo
System and nobody has ever called USCF ratings Elo ratings.
Correspondence ratings have also never been done under the Elo System.

So, the short of it is that Taylor Kingston is just an all-around
liar.

Sam Sloan