Honhest Sam gets it going, and The Delegate obligingly reduces it:

These were official FIDE World Championships. You may argue that these
titles may not be as prestigious as the Classical World Championship.
That is your right. But they are still FIDE World Championship titles.


They were minor events. Susan's claim is misleading and false.

That is a minor opinion. I would say winning any age-delimited /world event/
is not minor. Delegate Johnson and Honest Sam Sloan are reduced to not
disagreeing with the statement 'they are still FIDE World Championship
titles", but reducing the merit of the achievement, (in their own opinion).

GENDER CALLING

Some time ago I talked with Sir George Trevelyan and Sir Laurens van der
Post on the subject of the treatment of PM Thatcher. They both agreed that
as a politician she was certainly not above criticism, but rather more
effective than anyone else had been for 10 years, but the level of insult
offered her would never be proferred to a man.

Here we have the views of just a few people, 2 or 3 of them, who want their
/opinion/ to be 'fact' and together have posted some 30 times on this
subject in the past 4 days.

COMPARED WITH WHOM?

They would never do this to a man! If they wanted to argue what was really
worthy of world champion status then they could take Perfidious Fide's world
championship where Khalifman played how many games to gain the title?

Was it 9?

Now, you could call that a W Ch, and offically it was - but not the /same/ W
Ch as Fischer won - I seem to remember him going through world class players
and with scores of 6-0, just as the pre-amble to the big sit down in
Iceland. Is that a fair comparison?

FREE TO WHAT?

Its one thing to talk about free speech - quite another to talk about
responsible or honest speech. In fact, what is decent legal honest and
truthful speech.

While the folks above who assert their opinions as the only viable facts we
should consider, have a rather fixated subject - in this case, a particular
woman who for both of them was a political opponent in the recent election,
and who was always a threat to the status quo of US chess complacency - the
gender issue must also be considered too...

How topical it is these days in US chess to example women in opinion of what
is good or bad - and ironically to cite Fide's standard as the measure!

LADY MACBETH MADE HIM DO IT

I suspect for both the writers above there is a greater animus present in
them; one has no use for women at all, and the other rather regrets that
/he/ is not wearing those [horrible!!] ties ; )))

Phil Innes



ECJ