CASE CLOSED?

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

First, to the Rev. Walker. NMnot Taylor Kingston
is crawling to you. He and I have had our historical
discussions before, especially regarding the Oxford
Companion to Chess. He bailed out. It has been his
practice in discussions to invent pseudonyms and then
post PRAISE OF HIMSELF under these false names.

Specifically, I wanted to walk him through the
entries of the first edition of the Oxford Companion
to Chess on subjects Soviet -- one by one -- to
discover whether the claims I made in a review were
accurate. We would then compare my claims with the
stuff Edward Winter published re my review in Chess
Life about 20 years ago. He flittered off after that.

Secondly, to the forum: I claimed from the
beginning that the Laurie letter was probative, if not
determinative, evidence. It is now NMnot Taylor
Kingston's ploy to claim that I cited it as proof.

Once again, we have this situation: a published
playwright named Richard Laurie, whom we may assume
can express accurately what he means to say, stated in
a generally friendly, certainly civil, private letter to NMnot
that the latter had denied knowledge of the Evans-Winter
quarrel. The letter was written over five years ago when
there could have been no knowledge on Laurie's part that
it would ever figure in the current discussion. He had no
motive to misrepresent what he took to be the facts. It
was a letter that he likely believed would never see the
light of public day.

We also have NMnot's denial of Richard Laurie's
claim. He has gone on about the latter's befuddlement,
muddled, lying or simply evil nature.

The Laurie letter counts more as evidence, if not
proof, than NMnot Kingston's denial. Still, it is not
sufficient to convict. Readers will have to judge for
themselves the truth of the matter.

Readers will accord the letter probative value,
and they will accord NMnot's denial its appropriate
value. That is where we stand at the moment.
We hope to move forward as more surfaces from
e-mails by NMnot Kingston marked CONFIDENTIAL
so we can compare what he said privately to Laurie
to what he is saying now.
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Yours, Larry Parr