Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 11:53:28 09/26/98
An Offense was comitted on CCC by Robert Hyatt, against one of the members of CCC. That member being me Shaun Graham. Because this offense occurred in this open form, I am discussing it in this open form, because the CONDUCT OF MEMBERS IN CCC, IS AN INHERENTLY ON TOPIC SUBJECT of CCC, when that conduct occurs inside of this forum. This is especially true, for the reason that if a slight is comitted against a CCC member in open forum damaging his/her reputation and standing in the group there is no recourse for the individual to defend him/herself in order to dispell falsehoods and rebuke unwarranted attacks that may exist in the collective consciousness of the group. Except by making a statement in the group. This is true, for the reason that even though one could write to the moderators, since no statement is released by the moderators, the damage to ones reputation MAY remain fixed. I posted a thread in this group which stated: 1. Robert Hyatt is a liar. This Statement was posted for the reason that IN WRITING Robert Hyatt AGREED to cease and desist from reading or posting replies to posts of Shaun Graham. At least on two occasions Robert Hyatt has willfully and intentionally broken this WRITTEN AGREEMENT, by posting replies to posts of Shaun Graham. Further this more direct statement of the facts was only made, after Robert Hyatt was informed by me to maintain his agreement after he violated it the first time. This agreement was made and accepted by both parties because of irreconcilable differences of oppinions leading to long unnecessary heated debates that occur between the two parties. This statement against Robert Hyatt is not an attack or an abuse of him. For the reason that an attack is something most often which is "derogatory, and simultaneously of the nature of OPPINION, and SOMETIMES also for the soul purpose to defame the person who is targeted". Here the statement is 1.NOT of OPPINION, for the reason that the agreement is in writing and stored in a post of CCC, and further that the evidence that Hyatt has been reading and posting to Shaun Graham's posts, is also a part of CCC record. 2.There is no effort being made to defame Robert Hyatt by the statement, but only to defend myself from his abuse(He broke the agreement, and he was posting written faulty sarcastic attacks to the posts in question). 3. Thus if Hyatt is defamed and if the truth about him(he lied) is derogatory, that is a by-product that has occured. It would have not even been possible for this to have occurred except for the reason that he violated the agreement(lied). Hyatt attempted to justify his breaking of this agreement(his lying), by making the claim that a post by Shaun Graham entitled "Fritz draws a game with Anand, and Junior defeats Zifroni in a match", that contained the line "Hmm looks like GM strength to me", was SOMEHOW directed at him. Considering that I have had no contact with Hyatt or even read a post of his in over a month, not to mention that the posts doesn't mention him at all, such a claim can be seen for the "Red Herring it is(an attempt to cover his lie). The post was only meant to inspire some comment about these matches, especially since there wasn't much response to the more direct post i made which asked if anyone had info on the "Zifroni match?" Further if i am not mistaken this post was written AFTER Hyatt broke the agreement the first time. So again he has no justification for breaking his WRITTEN AGREEMENT. Robert Hyatt has broken the conduct of CCC more than any other person in the history of this group(IMHO), he is constantly arguing against "trolls" but one can notice, that he "trolls" EVERYTHING(not occasionaly, but all the time) that he thinks is a troll! This statement is made on the good evidence of the record of CCC postings which is available to be viewed. I am not claiming that the moderators of this group are unfairly overlooking this behavior of Hyatt, but it would surprise me a bit, if anyone else would be allowed to go around refferring to CCC members as "nut cases"(a recent posting of Robert Hyatt). Further posts supporting Hyatt such as "Right. If the bums post off-topic shit, erase them! Then erase the bums, we dont want them. We dont want their off-topic shit. What do they think this place is rec.games.chess.computer? Throw them off. Thats what our moderators are for. Great guys. Show them what is what We want on-topic only. When do those bums get it in their stupid heads? Bob is a great guy too."(Jay Rinde) Are often(IMHO) allowed to take up residence here on CCC without retort. This is not to say that i am not thankful for the time and effort that moderators put into this group because i am. I do however think that Robert Hyatt, mainly because he has written a free chess program, gets preferential treatment, though perhaps unintentionally so. Sorry for this aside The point is Robert Hyatt 1.blatantly "LIED" in this group, 2.attacked a member of CCC 3.attempted to use some influence to cover up his behavior. I want one thing and one thing only, that is for Robert Hyatt to be forced to maintain the WRITTEN agreement he made here on CCC, because his not doing so is counter productive to the goals and aims of CCC. Thank you for your time Sincerely Shaun Graham P.S. Hyatt also attempted to try to make a claim that i am somehow related to the banned CCC member Sean Evans for the purpose of drawing attention away from his behavior. The USCF has a record of my location being Oklahoma. There is also a record of a Shawn Evans located in Ohio(I assume the evans in question), Further i am quite certain that the postings bye me and Sean Evans can be demonstrated to have quite different sources of origination. I have no relation whatsoever to Sean Evans.
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