On Nov 3, 12:06 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

For that excuse to work, you would need to have written
something along these lines:

"I once was among the top 1% of all casual chess
players worldwide, IMO; this makes me an expert, so
you should listen to me, not to Nil Brennan, who is a
relatively weaker player."

Instead, what you wrote made very specific claims,
including assigning yourself an imaginary rating of
2450

wrong. plain wrong. almost at im level, that's all

but what the hell is it to you - other than envy? ))


IMO, it is impossible to envy *imaginary* chess skill.

However, if you meant that perhaps I am envious of
your extensive lying skills, you are mistaken. It seems
that each and every time you tell another fib, not one
but many others catch you in your lies, and from my
point of view, that makes you a /horrible/ liar -- not one
to be envied. An enviable liar might be someone who
is so believable that he is virtually never caught. I am
reminded of a movie I saw, in which an alien visits
Earth and is taken for a delusional nut case; so good
were his "lies" that he began to drive his assigned
psychologist batty. The shrink makes it his mission
to catch the alien/delusional in a self-contradiction or
blunder, but he never can; that is because in the movie,
the guy is not lying. Perhaps... in an alternate world,
Phil Innes really is a nearly-an-IM... .


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