Ponz, I said that if you want a real challenge to the opening, not to the group, you should allow unrated vote chess games where both sides use an engine. If you want a deep theoretical discussion of the opening, the only fair way is to have a vote chess match where both sides have access to computers.
Your group has 53 players. Congratulations! I was not maligning the group. I am maligning any arguments that vote chess games where one side has an unfair advantage in Ponziani theory (or any specialised opening) over the other is an appropriate way to settle theoretical debates about the worth of that opening.
This thread is not about any specific group, it's about an opening. My comments were about the opening.
SmyslovFan you are way off base. There are many teams which specialize in certain openings. I belong to three of them.
There is absolutely nothing wrong in having a team which only plays a certain opening. The purpose of Ponziani Power is to learn about this opening for people who are interested.
And I know that other than me we do not have one player who has spent months and years or years and years using computer assistence to analyze the Ponziani. In fact most of our team does not even have the book Play the Ponziani and they are certainly not experts in this opening.
You are maligning 52 out of 53 players in our group with your untrue statements.
We do not need you to tell us how to do things in our group.
And I am personally open to discussion about lines in the Ponziani except for that one line out of 1000 that I have not completed my study.