Mikhail Chigorin wrote:
I suppose I fall into the category of being a "Mancini licker", as you so euphemistically term it. However, please don't decide for me what I will be happy to admit, or what I won't be happy to admit.
If you had written something along the lines of "I surmise that even the Mancini lickers will happily admit....." or, possibly ; "In my opinion, I feel the Mancini lickers will happily admit....." , I wouldn't take issue with any such statement as you were expressing your own valuable and potentially valid opinion. However, it just seems that the format of the statement you made takes away (or attempts to take away) my own capabilities of independent thought, were I desirous of entering this particular debate.
I don't wish to cause offence or argue this matter 'ad nauseam', but please don't be so tendentious on my behalf, or anyone else for that matter, who might hold a different viewpoint to yourself.
Mikhail, I'm not attributing those criticisms to you directly, but they are all admissions made by various pro Mancini posters. I woukdn't like to put words in your mouth.
