<parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> One reckons that nearly every reader on this
> forum knows that Kanester inverted truth when calling
> Larry Evans an apparatchik of the USCF. He has
> been an independent contractor, never a USCF employee.
One has to laugh. When faced with an unpleasant
reality, Parr comes up with the defense that Larry
Evans was not technically "on the payroll" but rather
an independent contractor! I stand corrected. LOL
Of course, that detail has little to do with anything,
and does not resurrect the Evans mythology (of
someone bravely takes on a corrupt establishment) that
Parr has been assigned with promulgating.
GM Evans, a player I admire and an author of chess
works of which I am a satisfied customer (believe it
or not, he actually wrote about chess at one time!),
chose to make his chess name writing for the USCF's
"government" periodical. As such, his survival was not
related to excellence or even competence, but rather
his skill in negotiating the political winds of the
federation. He's done that in admirable fa****on -
and I don't deny that in part that relates to having
a group of loyal followers, mostly of the Sam Sloan
variety.
Of course, when CL made it mandatory for
every article to have a red-baiting angle, Evans
complied with his wild, fact-free allegations - often
contradicting his own prior writings. But I will grant that
Parr does have a point in that the USCF
does not speak with a single voice and
at times he's been at odds with certain factions
within the organization. Perhaps the wily politician
is a more apt image than apparatchik, which
emphasizes conformity above all else.
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