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Flying Chess. Some pieces can fly. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 30, 2004 11:34 PM UTC:
Harrold Pooter, 

As you yourself have acknowledged, I do have a point. Moreover, I have not
castigated you, I have no control over what you feel like, I have not
treated you with disrespect, and I have not treated you like an outsider.
It is an unfortunate fact of life that the dishonesty of some people
sometimes casts doubt on the honesty of others. You yourself have accused
Ho Mosley of dishonesty. It may be that you have been honest with us, but
the similarity between your comment and the ones that followed, all
purportedly by different people, has given reason for doubting this. Even
if your comments are unrelated to those that followed it, there is the
appearance of a coordinated campaign to hype up both Flying Chess and
David Eltis. You may just be the victim of circumstances, and if you are,
I wish merely to see you exonerated. But I can't do it for you. Only you
can provide the information that will clear you of suspicion, and so far
you haven't done this. Although you have given the name 'Harrold
Pooter,' it has not helped. A Google search on this name turned up zero
pages.

I may as well be clearer about what I suspect. There is only one person I
know of who would have a motive for hyping up this game and its inventor.
That is David Eltis himself. It is my suspicion that all three of you are
David Eltis using different aliases to hype up this game. But I have
difficulty accepting this suspicion as fact, because David Eltis is an
acclaimed author and college professor and even a fellow alumnus, since we
both got our Ph.D.s at the same university, and I would expect such a
person to act more ethically. But I have never met him myself and have no
firsthand knowledge of his character. So I just don't know what to think.
I would prefer to think that my suspicions are wrong, and that is why I
have asked for the evidence that they are. If none of you are David Eltis,
I would appreciate knowing this for a fact, because I don't want to
believe that he would stoop to underhanded tactics to hype up himself and
his game.