FLOTSAM AND JETSAM


P.S. My next post will describe in detail the item in Chess Life that
Taylor Kingston wanted playwright Richard Laurie to retract
(confidentially of course)!

Quite!@

But what is this all about? I keep asking Kingston if it is to do with
subject matter, or with a tiff with Larry Evans.


It looks to me like TK recklessly jumped in with some
praise of an article by LE; *then* he bothered to do his
due diligence work; next he (TK) corrected his earlier
comments; and finally, GM Evans made a careless boo
boo by quoting TK's original, wrong position in support of
him.

Soon afterward, LP jumped in -- and you know what
that means: total chaos!

What's amusing is the fact that apparently, Larry
Evans considered TK credible enough to mention in
support of his own, um, work, but ever since his boo
boo was discovered, LP has diligently worked to
/undermine/ TK's credibility, since he had *reversed*
his position. LOL! It is, quite honestly, hard to even
imagine a more effective undermining of LE than the
job Mr. Parr has done here in rgc over the years. :(

With "friends" like LP, GM Evans certainly has no
need of enemies. Yet the man's heart is in the right
place, as can be seen by LP's diligence in promoting
the recently-released book; it's more a question of
/incompetence/ than any lack of effort or desire on
LP's part.

Now for a brief but important message from our
sponsor: the bitterness of these petty disputes can
seem to disparage all parties concerned.

Take, for example, the "counterattack" launched
by Edward Winter, in which he in fact did precisely
what Larry Parr has charged him with doing: counting
a single error several times over, when subsequent
volumes were reprinted without any corrections
(although it must be said that that was in itself a
poor move). If it were me, I would edit and correct
such errors before going back to press, but then, it
wasn't me. I also would have resigned that game
GM Evans drew against Reshevsky, BTW... . :D


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