From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Bruce Harper--Runnin' Scared!
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:12:59 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <19037@mindlink.bc.ca>, Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper) writes:
> What a shocking surprise.  No game.

No surprise. I knew you didn't have balls enough to put you wallet aginst your
expert opinion.

The sad part is, it could all be a bluff on my part, and YOU backed down.

You'll never know.

> 
> You're going to make a great addition to the legal profession, just as you
> have to this group.

Why thank you. I hope to be just as bloodthirsty there as here.

> 
> Sorry to decline the offer to meet you in person - I can't think of anything
> I would rather do less.  Is there anyone else listening who feels
> differently?

There was offer for a social call. This was a challenge to prove JUST how wrong
your 'educated' guess was.

But, I do like the way you are trying put the spin on it...good lawyering.
(Yes, we pled guilty to child molesting because my client felt that the 
trauma of putting all those children through testimony would be just too 
extreme a burden on their psychological development.)

> 
> I don't think you'd cheat because I don't think you could find anyone to help
> you.  I won't cheat because I said I won't.

HA HA HA HA HA! Good joke. That promise is worth the paper it is printed on.

> 
> I think the way in which you'd lose would give us all an idea of your
> understanding of chess.

I would say, based upon the way your tail is between YOUR legs, it is not the
thought of ME losing which comes to your mind.

And the real beauty is, people who have been against me have asked if you
were just gonna take my challenge laying down...

I love it, you try and set up a match between me and someone else ("Let's you
and him fight it out!") to prove I couldn't play, and you walk away from
the challenge YOU helped create.

> 
> This is getting pretty pathetic - I think your brief tour of
> usenet.rec.games.chess has ended on a pitiful note of cowardice and
> hypocrisy. 

But Bruce, NOTHING you can do can change the fact that YOU declined to play.
YOU are the one who is unwilling to put anything of value at risk. You can try
to place this on me as much as you want, but it is YOU who are a coward and YOU
who are being a hypocrite...as you next few sentences proves:

		If you don't play chess, this really isn't the right group for
> you, is it, even if your understand of law and logic was what you wished it
> were.

If I didn't play chess, I wouldn't be willing to fly out for one game, winner
take all. Glory to the winner and a slimmer bank account to the loser.

And if you didn't FEAR I did, you would be more than willing to go through with
this. Think about it Bruce--being able rub my nose in what you are inhaling
right now. Most people on here would love that chance. 

You have it, and you walking (running?) away from it.


> 
> So that's that.  It would have been pretty funny...

That's that? You decline??? GOD! I thought this was going to be one of those
dramtic posts where it looks like the person is declining, and then, with John
Wayne tone in voice, he says "Like hell I won't! Let's play!"

You let me down Bruce. You posted a belief and were unwilling to back it up.

And you didn't even do the honorable thing and say, "Maybe I was wrong, maybe
he can play."

That's all ya had to do...

Instead, you dropped the ball.

DMC