KINGSTON REPEATS HIS CHALLENGE TO SAM

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
gameI propose this bet not out of egotism; I readily
acknowledge that my chess-playing achievements are
nothing great. But it takes only one contrary instance to
refute "never," and I can always use a few bucks. Our
Sam expressed his opinion with great vehemence and
certainty, yet since I proposed the bet, he has remained
silenton the subject. If he is so sure, what's the problem?
He'd make an easy ten grand. -- Taylor Kingston

EVER OR NEVER

I hereby renew my challenge to NMnot Taylor
Kingston to take a polygraph test about whether
either of us used bogus names on this forum.
..
Is he such an economic failure that he cannot
muster $10,000 to determine whether this writer ever
posted under such jr, wmiketwo and any other
monickers that he would care to have me deny when
taking such a polygraph test?

Taylor Kingston, who now tells us he is no great
shakes as a player (though always keeping his 2300+
Elo claim for, perhaps, less knowledgable audiences),
wants to bet about whether he ever defeated a master.

The idea here is that Sam used the "never" word, which
is incautious and frequently wrong when describing the lives
of anyone other than the only one we really know: our own.

Will NMnot Taylor Kingston finally tell us whether he
ever or never posted under the names of Paulie Graf and
Xylothist, among others? He can certainly use the word
"never" with some assurance on this point. Let us hear from him.

As Taylor Kingston, our class A player, put the
matter on June 5, 2005, in a susurrus of sauvely
expressed dishonesty: "Still, on the subject of
playing strength, I have never claimed to be any great
player, but I think with a peak Elo of 2300+, and a
top ranking of, as I recall, #46 in the country, I was
a tad better than weak."

You gotta love that "Still," "I think," and
above all "as I recall." His practice is to purr
when he lies outright.

Yours, Larry Parr


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 he http://tinyurl.com/27n2xd

Sam's claim is quite absolute and unequivocal, 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.
I propose this bet not out of egotism; I readily acknowledge that my
chess-playing achievements are nothing great. But it takes only one
contrary instance to refute "never," and I can always use a few
bucks.
Our Sam expressed his opinion with great vehemence and certainty,
yet since I proposed the bet, he has remained silent on the subject.
If he is so sure, what's the problem? He'd make an easy ten grand. As
I see it, the problems could be any or all of the following:

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