On Mar 15, 3:37 pm, wrote:

I present again Sam Sloan's claim:

"The fact is that Taylor Kingston has never beaten a master."

Interested readers can check the original post hehttp://tinyurl.com/27n2xd

Sam's claim is quite absolute and unequivocal

Not necessarily...


and also
unequivocally false. I have challenged Sam to put his money where his
mouth is. I have 10,000 actual, official American dollars that say I
have beaten an actual officially-titled USCF master in an actual,
serious, USCF-rated chess game.

Who cares? The question is, have you
ever beaten a REAL master -- that is, one
certified as such by FIDE, the official
organization recognized the world over as
the only corrupt entity with the power and
influence necessary to buy everyone off
and thus, reign supreme.

Obviously, when Mr. Sloan used the term
"master", he must have been referring to
the title of /FIDE master/, commonly
abbreviated as "FM". Here is a list of
games in which Sam Sloan has defeated
FIDE masters:


And here are some examples of him
drawing IMs and GMs:


(Sorry, I'm having technical problems
with the scanner, so these game scores
might not display correctly on your
screen.)


1. Sam is such an economic failure that he can't muster ten bucks in
the same place at the same time, let alone ten thousand.

We can rule this out on the basis that
Mr. Sloan has often entered such big-
money tournaments as the World Open;
real chess players know that Mr.
Goichberg does not give away entries
for free.


2. Sam has perhaps been trying to arrange a loan for the bet, acting
on the "greater fool" theory, but has not been able to find anyone
more foolish than himself.

3. Sam is not sane, and cannot distinguish between factual truth and
his own dream-world.

Irrelevant. Nutters have always had a
decided tendency to excel at chess.


4. Sam is an inveterate liar and smear-monger who will say anything,
but he slinks away in silence when his lies are exposed.

I like this one.


But I think an alternate explanation
might be that Mr. Sloan was looking to
"show off" his wins against some USCF
masters, and wanted a challenge to
produce them here. (Instead, he got a
mindless "give me $10K" diversion.)

Rather than blather on about money,
why not show us some annotations of
Mr. Sloan's many famous games? As
we know, even Dr. Phil IMnes can do
this, using the latest version of Rybka
in conjunction with the Fritz interface,
but that lends a rather robot-like style to
the writing. We have been told that the
style of TK is that of a careful researcher,
a flawless technician, a nearly-a-genius,
and Mr. Sloan's efforts could use a good
looking over.


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