Dmitri King, I refer you back to your posting of 27 March if I may and begin with a quote:

"You conveniently ignored EVERY valid point in my post, and instead you directed various personal attacks against me in a harsh and unpleasant tone"

Please don't insinuate that I deliberately ignored every valid point you made as this is not the case; it was simply that I felt no need to comment upon the points I agreed with as you got those points across adequately.

My sincere apologies if you felt there was a tone to my posting. I would confirm however that I did read your posting in full. I'm sorry if I mistranslated what you said but again would wish to refer to quotes from your posting:

"I would like to express my disappointment in the new games" and
"But, with all due respect, I must say I think the creation of these new pente variants is a serious error.".

I assumed the opinion you gave there meant you didnt enjoy them, was I mistaken?

As far as disrespecting people goes, once again I refer to the above quotes which led me to believe that your opinion is that these variations shouldn't be here which I thought could be taken as disrespectful to those who may be playing and enjoying them.

Finally I refer you to your statement:

"That is a terrible debating tactic"

and would wish to say that whilst my debating techniques may or may not be as good as yours, I am still entitled to express my opinion. It would be a very sad day if we began debating debating techniques on these boards, and a waste of bandwidth I feel. I don't believe it is constructive to be criticising the way people express their opinions.

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Walter Montego, thank you for posting. Quote:

"You accuse him of making blanket statements and then in the very next paragraph you make one yourself!"

I just wish to point out that I am in fact a lady...lol.

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To conclude this posting I will just say that I am finished with this debate as the last thing I wish to do is to fight about it on these boards.

Blaze