Re: The Future of Chess and Getting It "Unstuck"

On Apr 4, 8:00=A0am, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
wrote:
> richardhut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> >And my comments about considering a change in the chess rules is
> >considered heresy by you.

> Liar. =A0Either produce evidence that my opinions about chess are
> based on religious beliefs or shut your trap. =A0I will not stand
> by while you repeat the above lie again and again, always refusing
> to back up your words with evidence.

He may be making an untrue statement, but he is not making _that_
untrue statement.

His remark does not mean "you consider changing the rules of Chess to
be contrary to the essentials of Christian belief, hence heretical",
it means "you are among those chess players who have an intense
emotional reaction to the idea of changing the rules of Chess, based
on a rigid, irrational attachment to the rules as they are, such that
your view of changing the rules of Chess is akin to the reaction of
certain types of religious people to what they view as heresy".

Given what his statement actually means, and would be understood to
mean by the average reader, it may still be an unfair characterization
of your views in this matter. But by playing the confrontational game
with him, you're *providing* evidence that the latter statement might
be true.

Even though you would still be providing absolutely no evidence of an
objection to changes in the rules of chess that is of a theological
nature.

John Savard