Yet a continuation of facist attacks.
Can you not just move on to something else?
There is a world championship going on ya know.


The Historian wrote:
help bot wrote:
Louis Blair wrote:

Phil Innes wrote (Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:14 GMT):
7 ... in truth, i never mentioned any rating, ever, in any chess
7 newsgroup, and only contradicted some idiocy of Brennans
7 in a humanities newsgroup, to indicate that he was a chess
7 idiot, didn't know whta he was saying ...


I suspect that the above quote is why I have, for years,
been under the distinct impression that IM Innes was
"correcting" a claim by Neil Brennen that he could make
out the exact situation on the board in some painting,
while the great IM Innes could not.

Mr. Parr's "model intellect" is always creating a straw-Neil or
straw-Taylor or straw-someoneorother that he can "correct." In his
now-infamous defense of an alleged Orwell 'quotation' Innes invented he
also claimed to have been correcting me. That was the same thread,
incidentally, in which he confused me with Matt Nemmers. Mr. Nemmers
stated he had never heard of the novelist Henry Miller; Innes to this
day believes I wrote that confession.

It never occurred to
me that Mr. Innes might have simply been confused as
to what happenned, himself.


7 "... My qualifications for saying so is that I was
7 nearly an international master, with a rating of
7 2450 ..." - Phil Innes


I tend to compare such a claim as this with many by
local players of the past, who insisted they were Masters
on account of having had a performance in some event
which exceeded 2200 USCF. Their other performances,
such as, say, 1600 level, in other events, escaped their
memories somehow. Just as common were claims by
Class A or B players to be Experts, based upon a single
performance in some random event. In each case the
players in question were firmly convinced, despite being
wrong. For me, the fact that IM Innes pulled off this ploy
in a newsgroup other than rgc tells us only that he knew
he could not get away with such a lie *here*.

Agreed. I've been pointing this out for years. Unfortunately for the
Nearly an IM 2450, he's been caught almost as often as he's tried his
trick. His self-proclaimed 'skill' in Russian translation was shown up
on HLAS; he didn't realize one of the posters was fluent in the
language. Ditto his Latin.

Further comments hidden deep within the long quotations
such as melancholy having naught to do with sadness,
seem to reveal a pattern of pretentious posing by our
dear IM Innes, no matter which newsgroup he infests at a
given time.

Agreed.