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Siam Chess Game. How Many "Mets" Will Finish Off The Naked King Of Siam?[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
M Winther wrote on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 05:45 AM UTC:
Graeme, on this site people are encouraged to judge variants according to the values Poor, Below Average, Average, Good, and Excellent. It is fully appropriate to be 'judgemental' about variants. I'm not saying that I have objective criteria. I create and judge variants according to my own credo. I don't have recourse to objective criteria when judging political parties either. Nevertheless, it is regarded as model conduct to judge this party as good and that party as bad. This discussion goes on in science, too. In every journal in the hard sciences, and in the humanities. people are judging this and that theory as inferior and instead propose a better one. To be able to judge products of human thought is essential to modern thinking and the notions of democracy and science. 
/Mats