Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 15:58:08 03/30/99
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On March 30, 1999 at 18:21:11, Hristo wrote: >It is sad to see one of our friends and many innocent people involved in a >situation like the one developing before our eyes in Kosovo !!! While there is >much to be said about this I would like to restrain myself(for the moment) from >doing so. I lived in Bulgaria for over 21 years and the problems of this >region(the Balkans) are not new nor obscure to me! People there live in a much >more "difficult" circumstances then the American and West Europen contries. It >is so striking to me to see that in our small comunity, which is bound by "love" >and pation for chess, we can not seem to be able to find peace! There is so much >righteousness, so much hate, and so much personal attacks and abuse. Why do we >go at each others throat so easily, even here, where our lives are not >threatened? Do we understand each other? Do we understand our selfs? All our >problems, within this group, originate or are related to chess. We always have >issues ... incredibly "important" issues. "cheating", "honesty" ... How do our >problems relate and compare to Dgeordges problems?! They don't!!! WE DO NOT HAVE >PROBLEMS! NONE! We have invented incredibly sophisticated rhetoric to create >those pseudo-problems to make us feel important! I hope we are smarter than >that. I hope we learn(the damn programs have a learn feature, why don't we)! We >can stop the nonsense in our small chess comunity. > >Hristo Yes it is terrible the thing that is happening over their. But we can only send our hopes and prayers our to him and the people over there. But we must go on. And that is why we need to post these things like cheating and honesty. We cannot stop and all get caught up in the terrible things that happen in this world. As with whoever you support over their, they are trying to right the wrongs. As is what we do when we talk about cheating and other things.
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