Author: Roger
Date: 17:46:53 03/12/00
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This is forum in which people expect logical argumentation, backed up by evidence, where such evidence exists. It is exactly my point that with regard to the Xie-Jr match, we can NEVER REALLY BE SURE WHETHER IT IS FAKE OR NOT. That was exactly your point, too, so I would expect you to agree with me. So don't get pissed off at me. I'm not the one who brought a one gigahertz Kyrotech into the match, thus creating this terrible ambiguity to begin with. If you're going to be pissed off at someone, get pissed off at Xie and her handlers, who cannot be so cretinous as to fail to realize the extent of the ambiguity about the fairness of the result that this creates. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that this entire thread is a troll. Wouldn't you be pissed off? Off course you would, because it would mean that you'd been "taken in" by someone's sadistic parody of a genuine argument. That is exactly the situation we are in with regard to Xie. We can NEVER be sure whether the match is real or fake. I, for one, am proud to say that I think such epistemologically ambiguous situations make a farce of chess, where the result of each game is anything but ambiguous, but always instead 1-0, 0-1, or a draw. That is why I say that Xie and her handlers are so potentially morally reprehensible, because they have created an atmosphere that is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of the game itself. Xie must lose if she is to prove her character clean. Roger ------------------------- On March 12, 2000 at 20:32:12, Marc Plum wrote: >Hello? Anyone home? > >Read my post again. > >Over and out:-) > >Marc
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