In article , Tom Watson wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:22:28 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article . com, "entfillet"
wrote:
"BTW, I noticed you didn't reply to my question: what was your last
USCF
rating?"

I'll be in your general area on business in mid March. How about we
play best of three for a hundred bucks? I can stay over for a Saturday
to do it but need to be back home by Sunday afternoon. It's enough
money to make it fun without calling the attention of our wives.

You still haven't answered that question: what was your last rating?

You should only be concerned with what I will bring to the board. I
haven't asked for your USCF rating, your FIDE rating, your ELO rating,
because I don't really care. I figure you for a hotshot high school
chess club sort of guy, who is thirty years past his prime,who would
rank about 2000 on the USCF scale.

That makes you meat.

Whatever.


I'd suggest forty moves in two hours.

Sounds good to me.

Winner buys dinner. I hope you like Chinese.

Love it. We have a great Chinese restaurant on the NW side of Indy, maybe 20
minutes from my home.

We'll shake for the white.

I'll be using algebraic notation. We can talk about the other
possibilities, then.

It doesn't matter to me what notation you use; why even mention it? You figure
out yet that there's no such square as "KP3" in descriptvie notation?

Have you figured out that there is no such word as "descriptvie"?

Oh, lookie, you caught a typo. Good for you. You win a gold star for today.

Could you have possibly cut me the same slack as I am cutting you in
allowing for the obvious error?

Nope.

First off, mine is an obvious typo, whereas yours was (a) clearly an error
fact, not a typo, and (b) made repeatedly.

Secondly, rather than admit an error, you tried to bluster past it, claiming
it was not an error. It was pretty clear that, until I corrected you and you
did some research, that you really thought you had it right at the start.

Third, you then resorted to childish, vulgar name-calling.

You used up your slack and then some.

I look forward to our meeting.

Me too. If you show up. Do a whois lookup on my domain; you'll see my real
home address and phone number.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.