13-08-2014, 11:23 PM
Hugh
There’s none so blind as those who wear blinkers. So, I’m very pleased/relieved to see you introduce some common sense. There are many forms of disability. Getting a wheel chair up to Alva Street 1/F may be difficult but other chess players who are impaired may very well be able to climb the stairs under their own steam: blind, lame, limbless (i.e no arms as in Thalidomide Baby, for example) are obvious examples. I think the thread - sadly - has deteriorated as the day has gone on. Some people it seems just want to throw ‘stones', forgetting the Biblical invocation: Let he who is among you without (fault) cast the first stone.
Right, I’m off tc bed.
George
There’s none so blind as those who wear blinkers. So, I’m very pleased/relieved to see you introduce some common sense. There are many forms of disability. Getting a wheel chair up to Alva Street 1/F may be difficult but other chess players who are impaired may very well be able to climb the stairs under their own steam: blind, lame, limbless (i.e no arms as in Thalidomide Baby, for example) are obvious examples. I think the thread - sadly - has deteriorated as the day has gone on. Some people it seems just want to throw ‘stones', forgetting the Biblical invocation: Let he who is among you without (fault) cast the first stone.
Right, I’m off tc bed.
George