Author: John Warfield
Date: 21:50:34 02/03/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 23:58:15, James Robertson wrote: >> Please get a life! I merely stated a opinion regarding Karpov's playing skills >>against a specific opponent. This is neither personal, or an attack. Simply a >>stated belief. I have a right to believe someone is a bad player, without being >>accused of attacking them right? > > >This is the wrong way to define personal attack. If you said "x plays like a >deranged muttonhead" would you consider that a personal attack? Or would you >not, because it is just a statement of your opinion? It is no more and no less >personal than your statement about Karpov. > >The content of your post is not, IMO, a personal attack. The title _is_ and here >I why: In both your title and your post you state your opinion. But in your >title you also _unnecessarily_ insult Karpov, and that is the personal attack. > >James Sorry I cannot govern my speech in the way in which people think it ought to be phrased, suck is exactly the word I want to use to describe how I believe karpov plays against computers, now against humans I think Karpov is a excellent player and one of the greats, suck is simply a slang term which is in vogue right now, taken in it's context it is not an insult at all, if you choose to see it that way that is your problem. So I will say it again....KARPOV SUCKS AGAINST COMPUTERS, KARPOV SUCKS AGAINST COMPUTERS!!
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