french defense

Maybe IAMBBW comes from a very isolated area of Switzerland and he is, unfortunately, a product of a cousin marrying a cousin resulting in severe retardation of their offspring. In the USA, especially in Appalachia and many areas of the Deep South, this sad situation has occurred too many times in the past. We should extend to him our sympathies and be still willing to try to educate him. We Chess players must try to help out one another and particularly try harder to help those who reject our efforts. If they continue to refuse our help, then they are either mentally ill or truly retarded. A very good point to be made, in my opinion, is that just because a person does not play a certain opening or defence it does not necessarily follow that that particular system is intrinsically no good. It can simply be that it is not applicable to a person`s style. I`d like to finish my thoughts with a few observations about peoples`s opinions: True, we are all entitled to our opinions and we are not obligated in the least to have to explain why we conclude in any particular fashion. But if one cannot explain why they do not like something, one usually appears in the eyes of many to be either very uneducated, of a very diminished mental capacity or both. Let us not forget that people who suffer severe head trauma from for example falling off a mountaintop in the Alps or the Himalayas can still function but may lose the ability to think clearly on more sophisticated things like Chess.