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  • Re: Kevin's at it again!

    Paul,I've met Kevin numerous times at tournaments with Bryon.I was enamoured at first by his soft spokenness and self-deprecating manner.He always took Bryon and I to dinner and seemed eternally supportive .Bryon told me he was actually being condescending to me but I would have none of it.The first time I met him in fact,he said he could be World Champion if he had Bryon's natural talent,and Bryon could be World Champion if he had his drive and study habits.I was mesmerized.He was known to slip Bryon money as well at tournaments.I felt this way for several years until Bryon was overlooked for inclusion on the olympic team.He was determined to fight this and did receive support from Ontario Governors and theOCA.Kevin was most vocally supportive.Then,it was determined by an unimpeachable source,that K. was actually the instigator of the movement to keep Bryon off the team.This movement was not only directed at Bryon I might add.I said nothing but paid attention in later years.There are very few individuals in Canadian chess who have escaped his invective and I suspect very few who deserved it.The only difference now, is he is becoming less secretive and more vocal.I have no doubt every word on that blog emanates from his mouth.

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    • Re: Character Assassination

      Originally posted by Duncan Smith View Post
      The CFC is supposed to be more then a lameduck enterprise that rates games for a fee.
      Whoa whoa whoa there...let's not get crazy :)

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      • Re: Kevin's at it again!

        Paul, Charles is writing satire.

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        • Re: Re : Re: Bat (Parasite) Research

          Originally posted by Louis Morin View Post
          I prefer Kevin's real biography found on this site:

          www.spraggett.com

          There are also two nice photographs, including a giant one of Kevin standing near a fireplace, and this testimony written by Kevin's brother, Jim Spraggett:

          "
          This site posts a link to KS's blogspot so his family considers the blogspot to be written by KS himself

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          • Re: Kevin's at it again!

            Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post
            Paul, Charles is writing satire.
            Hmmm.... It sounded like "spelunking" to me... :)
            Gary Ruben
            CC - IA and SIM

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            • Re: Kevin's at it again!

              Nah, Charles hasn't caved yet, Gary.

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              • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post
                Nah, Charles hasn't caved yet, Gary.
                It's a great word. I came across it in a crossword puzzle, as I hadn't used it in years.
                Gary Ruben
                CC - IA and SIM

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                • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                  “If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.'' Lyndon Johnson

                  tags: bully, chesstalk, bevand,liles,mckillop,coleman,berson,lohner

                  well looks like I made his list... but with the logic of the above quote it is no wonder....

                  Just a little further down in KS's weekly report on Chess in Canada, he shows some correspondence from some of his readers... These quotes show that he has influence to a wide audience and feels free to continue his campaign of character assassination against people who don't agree with him... all this and his cowardice in not allowing others to respond on his site by taking comments off. The sad part is that these people don't understand the complete BS that this guy is shoveling from across the world...

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                  • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                    The comments are funny too, like the one complaining about stuff here on Chesstalk getting deleted. We've deleted nothing and only closed one of the several threads on the subject.
                    Christopher Mallon
                    FIDE Arbiter

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                    • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                      I may not agree with all the decisions with closing down threads, but they are always still there... and from what I can tell this is a private server... the people who own it pay the bills and get to choose the rules. On the other hand, KS's own blog has the most extreme form of censorship... he doesn't allow anyone to defend themselves!

                      If you look at other high profile blogs like GM Susan Polgars (an excellent source for chess related material), she allows comments... even after all the crap the USCF has done/is doing to her. She doesn't seem scared to allow comments on her site and she is FAR more of a public figure than KS is... I guess she has nothing to hide... goes to show that even she has more balls than KS... (no offense to S.Polgar intended!)

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                      • Re: Character Assassination

                        Originally posted by Duncan Smith View Post
                        You know, if you guys out west had addressed this situation in a more professional manner then you wouldn't have faced anywhere near as much grief as you did.
                        The term "professional" implies that someone is getting paid and therefore has contractual obligations. Nothing of the kind is going on here. And I'm not aware of experiencing any "grief."

                        If chessplayers had the collective ability to influence the thinking of others in areas unrelated to chess, then I suspect you'd be one of the first to know about it.

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                        • Re: Character Assassination

                          Originally posted by Jean Hébert View Post
                          Personally I love Kevin's blog. It is such good reading. He is undoubtedly one of our greatest fiction writer but he seems unaware of it. Of course problems arise when he uses real names, a few selected facts, lots of interpretations and wild guesses, to call fiction the "truth".
                          Hi Jean,

                          I read the following quote from Simon Mawer in an interview with Sarah Crown, which appeared in "The Guardian" (a British newspaper) on Saturday, October 3, 2009:

                          "I'm a novelist. I don't want to tell the truth. I want to manipulate things as I choose. I want to lie."

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                          • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                            Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post
                            I've misplaced my dictionary-- Can anyone help me with the spelling of "sycophant"?
                            I cannot help with the spelling, Ken. However the meaning is something like: the relationship of a CFC vice president to the CFC President during a one year term.

                            The CFC has had MANY sycophants. One after another, they never seem to disagree with their masters. And they seek their own gain.

                            But what does it matter? The CFC will be extinct in about 4 -5 years anyway.

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                            • Re: Kevin's at it again!

                              Originally posted by Anthony Cheron View Post
                              But what does it matter? The CFC will be extinct in about 4 -5 years anyway.
                              That's not likely. They have the FIDE fruit stand in Canada. That alone should do it for them. But it gets better. They have charitible status. They also have the Chess Foundation.

                              Keeping it alive is almost idiot proof.
                              Gary Ruben
                              CC - IA and SIM

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                              • Re: Ok, this is getting absolutely RIDICULOUS!

                                Originally posted by Paul Bonham View Post

                                The Grandmaster title, and the IM title likewise, adds no credence whatsoever to what the titleholder thinks about world affairs or any other non-chess matter.

                                As for the issue of Spraggett himself, I thought there was some doubt raised as to whether these blogs are really (or completely) from Spraggett. Perhaps Spraggett is providing the chess-related portions, and someone else is adding the non-chess portions without Kevin's knowledge? Like Peter Stockhausen, perhaps Kevin will "emerge" suddenly, and will disavow any responsibility for the non-chess blogs?
                                Are you saying then that chess, and the higher levels of playing chess ( GM )have no impact on intelligence? Studies prove otherwise.

                                http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/iq.htm

                                Your last statement is not very intelligent because much time has elapsed since the blog first came out. KS would have objected by now, had the material been written by someone else on his site. ( not an easy thing to do with password authentication anyway )

                                I think you are mixing up the fact that on chesstalk a few years ago, people could post nonsense ANONOMOUSLY on this site and get away with it. It was really getting out of hand so the admins had us sign in with our real names. This of course was the proper thing to do and should have been done at the start. There may have been several KS imposters. We dont know. Only those out there know who they are.
                                Last edited by Anthony Cheron; Monday, 12th October, 2009, 10:20 AM.

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