Jonathan Rogers wrote:
JustinHorton wrote: ... maybe the experience of the similar BS-merchants Woolgar and CJ will make people think a little harder about this particular version.
Maybe but as I said earlier it is not my sense so far.
Not sure it's mine either. Is the chess world any different in that regard to anywhere else, though?
I mean if i was to phone up Lords tomorrow and tell them,
"look, I want do something really tasteless like land a flapping great helicopter on the outfield, flash loads of cash, organise some tossy cricket matches and, by the by, grope a few of the players' wives while I'm at it"
can you imagine the reply being anything other than,
"
loads of cash, you say?"
Quicker than you could say
"Stanford's in prison now" there'd be some Stewart Reuben equivalent pitching up on the English Cricket Forum informing everyone of how I'd seen a game on the telly once and visited St Johns Wood when I was a nipper.