On Nov 17, 1:29 am, " wrote:

WHO IS LYING: LAURIE OR KINGSTON?


Readers may recollect that we published a letter written by
Richard Laurie to NMnot Kingston in 2002. In that letter, among other
points made, playwright
Laurie stated that our NMnot denied knowledge of a dispute between GM
Larry Evans and Eddie Winter.

Yes, one of several false statements Mr. Laurie made.


NMnot Kingston's response to the letter has been that Mr. Laurie
was lying, befuddled, muddled and evil. He denied the Laurie claim.

And now (surprise!) our Larry adds a falsehood of his own. Please
supply the quote of me calling Laurie "evil." At least this time you
got 3 out of 4 right -- way above your usual average, Larry.

My judgment tells me that Mr. Laurie, a man versed in the
niceties of language,

Sheesh, Larry, I don't mean to brag, but as far as understanding "the
niceties of language," I'll stack my literary credentials up against
Laurie's (or yours) any day. As the editor, co-author and/or
translator of at least 15 books, and the author of hundreds of
articles published in Chess Life, Inside Chess, Kingpin, Chess
Horizons, and ChessCafe.com I won't claim to be any Shakespeare or
Hemingway, but I will own to a reasonable command of English. People
pay me thousands of dollars to turn leaden ineptitude into, if not
gold, at least into grammatically correct, clear, understandable
English prose.
And as anyone who has worked with me will tell you, I like brevity,
directness, and plain speaking. There is no need to seek hidden
meanings. It's all up front.

was not likely to have misunderstood NMnot's
meaning

And yet, as I have demonstrated here repeatedly, he *_did_*
misunderstand, or even deliberately distort.

and that he had no motive at that time to misrepresent NMnot's
meaning.

Except that like our Larry, he is an adoring Evans zealot who will
brook no criticism of his idol.

the discussion is
not about what the Laurie letter proves. In itself, it proves
nothing.

Well now, Larry, I am glad to see you finally admit this! You
finally concede that you have doodley-squat to back your cheap smears.
Like the futile search for non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the much-
ballyhooed Laurie archive has come up empty. This is indeed
refreshing, and a rare, a very rare and precious instance of honesty
on your part.

Thank you for finally admitting the obvious. As your messiah once
wrote, "Case Closed."