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While Larry Parr will always refuse to admit error, and instead pretend to
confess to some lesser crime (here, not spelling out a subtle distinction for
his presumed-ignorant audience), he is probably dead right in thinking he has
been, once again, accused of outright lying.

But I don't think he intended to lie, in this case. He was merely churning
out more ad homenim slop against his"bitter enemy," Edward Winter. In the
process, Mr. Parr decided it would be "useful" to draw a distinction between
historians and antiquarians, in order to "lower" Mr. Winter a notch or two, and
thumb his nose at Winter's "A Chess Omnibus" by recategorizing it as mere
archival stuff.



water-muddying counterattack rather than
admit error. Parr took pains to label Winter as a "not a historian"
and drafted Hilbert for the cause, only to find that Hilbert doesn't
share Parr's opinions.


In addition to the fact that Mr. Hilbert clearly differed with Mr. Parr
(despite the latter's attempts to obfuscate this) on whether or not Winter was
indeed, an historian, I think the real point to be noted is that Hilbert
praised Winter's work to the skies, while poor Larry Parr is still suffering
the after-effects of a man who hopes and prays for his "enemies" to be rained
upon, but the rain never comes.


Edward Winter's A Chess Omnibus clearly ranks as
one of the finest chess history productions of the decade, if not of
many decades. If by some necessity I were forced to spend the next
full year with only one chess book at hand, this is the one I would
select."
- John Hilbert, review of A Chess Omnibus at The Chess Cafe.


My advice to poor Mr. Parr, is to drop his obfuscating attempts and have a go
at the indexing -- attack at the weakpoint (revealed by none other than John
Hilbert)!
Surely Edward Winter has, at one time or another, criticized somebody for
botching their index. What comes around, goes around. Turnabout is fairplay.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if GM Larry Evans had been scolded by Winter for
some indexing imperfections. It's time for the hunter, to become the hunted.
LOL