On Nov 3, 7:34 pm, samsloan wrote:

So you are still claiming to have been "nearly an IM".

How come you refuse to play me a chess match for $1000 cash?


Mr, Sloan, I don't think you /get it/.

IM Innes does not really believe he is nearly-an-IM;
he just wants everyone else to believe it. Deep down,
where he keeps his pocketbook and ratpack membership
card, he knows better than to throw away hard-earned
cash like that.

For $1,000, IM Innes could buy around 100 pizzas,
or approximately 100 Eric Schiller chess books (that's
everything he has written in the last two years!), or he
could enter and play in the World Open. No way is he
going throw that away for a one-in-ten shot at beating
the great Sam Sloan. Un-uh.



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