TIME FOR HONESTY

Taylor Kingston will usually answer (except
whether he posted under other names on this forum in
PRAISE OF HIMSELF -- for Pete's sake) but he may not
always choose to understand what is asked of him.

Those whose self-regard leads to preciosity must
guard against understanding points.

One could argue -- though I definitely do not --
that after all these years Taylor Kingston would be
losing credibility beyond recovery were he finally to
say: "I posted under false names during heated
debates because I needed to praise myself and to
attack Larry Parr, among others, while using an alias.
I dishonestly avoided answering the question for years."

It would have been easy enough for him to have
written the above a few years back. To write it at this
point would require moral courage; and I, for one, would
recognize that moral courage immediately. Frankly, if I
found myself in such a pickle, I can't say for sure what I'd do.

I don't think that Taylor Kingston could restore his
credibility right away with the likes of a Tapperman
or a Louie Blair or a Greg Kennedy or a Dr. Dowd
(whatever they might dribble on this frum to the contrary)
after such an admission, but as far as I am concerned,
he would instantly gain a lot of stature.

Finally, I am repeatedly on record in the past
(and I do not rescind a word of it) as having praised
his book reviews as better than 90% of the stuff written
about chess books. That may not be the very highest
of praise, but it is not meant to be ironic belittlement either.

My judgment of his written written work is, I believe, objective.
He takes care when writing, provides a lot of information
(sometimes too much) and writes in literate if mannered,
Johnny-one-note English. I don't happen to care for that style,
though adopting it myself on occasion in these debates. Still,
one must be objective. Taylor Kingston writes competently
and grammatically.

Now, he needs to write honestly.

Yours, Larry Parr



Taylor Kingston wrote:
On Nov 15, 7:41 pm, wrote:

Does that make Sloan the Unholy Goat? I'm sorry, the Devil made me do
it.

Not bad!