Mr. Too much of a pussy to sign his posts,

What?,...That's all?,...is that all you've got to say?,...I take your diatribe
apart and all you can come up with is this...?....WEEEAAAKKK!!! You really do
like to pontificate, don't you? Again, you selectively pick and poke at the
sides, but avoid any of the difficult points,...pathetic,...You try to argue a
point already acknowleged by selectively editing only the bits you can pick
at...lame,...I give you a thorough explantion of my position and all you can do
is clip a couple of lines, take them out of context, and attempt to base an
arguement on them,...weak. And the response to Sadler's review,...and that
'crack' joke,...Uhhggg!...Not even a remotely skillful attempt at evasion. The
fact that you're resorting to your,...dorky?...sense of humor is a sure sign
that your quiver has run out of arrows,...and if you TRULY believe that
interpretation of his statement, than I'd ask that you READ the review
yourself,...Oh, that's right,...you don't actually read any of the stuff you
disparage,...Heeheehe,...

Mr. Dictator? Would you please explain that to me? Is this another 'gem' from
that empty bag of humor you carry? I'm not really sure how I qualify as a
'Dictator',...although I am subjugating your sorry little ass, aren't I..
However, I'm sure you'll have some 'over-blown' explanation that borders on the
melodramatic - you should really read your own words, half the time you sound
like a Shakespearean theatre reject,...it's kinda pathetic.

As to my standards,...I have pretty high standards, really,...but I'm also
reasonable in my expectations. From the beginning of the book,...Oh, that's
right,...you haven't actually read the book, well, let me tell you about it
then,.....From the beginning of the book it's very clear that the authors
were not intending to offer the reader a precise account of the Champion's
lives, or provide exhaustive analysis of their games, and contrary to Winter's
review, they actually do make reference to quite a few sources throughout, but
they don't make the mistake of bogging the reader down with irrelevant,
persnickety references as some would do.....It's a matter of taste, but as a
READER,...I appreciated it,.....What they did do was provide a general
portrait of each Champion, the games they played, the opposition they faced,
the times in which they lived, and the influence their chess had on the game we
know today. In addtion, we're led on this tour by non-other than the greatest
player in the history of the game, Garry Kasparov...that's it...did you get
that?...I'm explaining this again so that you might be able to understand why I
think Winter's criteria was 'off point',...Do you follow? Apples &
Oranges?,...you with me?

I expect more than a few readers of this thread will have noted that Mr.
Dictator refuses to address the charge that Kasparov did not really write
much
of this book. Worse, he continues to base his worthless praise on the idea
that Kasparov did just that, along with deriding the critics for daring to
examine this work to determine its quality.

Did you read ANYTHING I wrote?...for the third time, and I'll try to state it a
different way 'cause the other two times it seemed to soar over your head,...
for all I know Plisetsky wrote the whole damn thing,...and if so, he did a HELL
of a job sounding like Garry, but it's a good book regardless,...do you get
what I'm saying? In my opinion, take it for what it's worth, patzer that I am,
it's a GOOD BOOK! I personally feel that Garry had a LOT to do with this work
and I will willingly plead guilty of being bamboozled should it ever be proven
he didn't. I'm writing my position again, so that you might actually
acknowledge it. Think you can do that this time? Your constant evasion is
getting old.

I look forward to your next lame diatribe,...

Later,...


Ryan
(signature/e-mail,...?...I still haven't seen one...it's a sign of weakness not
to include it, ya know)