Author: Don Dailey
Date: 03:18:04 07/29/98
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On July 28, 1998 at 23:40:54, Howard Exner wrote: >On July 28, 1998 at 09:36:34, Don Dailey wrote: > >>On July 28, 1998 at 02:48:59, Leon Stancliff wrote: >> >>>I fear that a former comment was correct. Since we have not heard a word from >>>Ed, I take it that he would rather sit back for the moment and rest on his >>>laurels. Perhaps from a commercial point of view this is a wise move. >> >>Come on Leon! >> >>It sounds like you're trying to compel Ed into playing the match by >>calling him a chicken if he refuses. This is a tactic that doesn't >>work very well against adults (or at least it shouldn't!) >> >>- Don >> >> >>>I do think it would be interesting to see what would happen in a Morovic vs >>>Ferret match of four games at a time of Game in 2 hours. Ferret would probably >>>not play at quite the same level as Rebel 10, but if Ed continues to remain >>>silent this would be a viable second choice. > >Maybe I'm reading this entire thread differently. Fernando's initial post >was not asking Ed's permission to play Rebel (9 or 10). He explicitely >requested a pre released version of Rebel 10. >He of course said he would pay for it or return it. Ed replied that it wasn't >quite ready, use Rebel 9, or wait till Rebel 10 is ready and play it to your >heart's content against who ever you want. This was my initial understanding of >what transpired between Fernando and Ed. > >Then I started reading comments like: > >- Ed continues to remain silent >- Ed doesn't want to play against Morovic >- Only an idiot would not play a GM (corrected original by including the word, >not). >- we've heard from Ed, he refuses to play. (at least this is half accurate) > >I began to wonder if I read Fernando's and Ed's original posts correctly. >Went back, reread them, thinking that maybe I had entered the twilight zone >but nothing had changed. Doesn't sound to me that Ed was silent, nor >did he refuse Fernando the opportunity to play Morovic using the only available >version of the latest Rebel. Just can't figure out where the spin >doctoring is coming from. > >As posted previously I am looking forward to watching Morovic play a >computer opponent, especially at the 40/2 control. As it turns out it >looks as Fernando has given Ferret that honor. I'm sure it will be a hard fought >match. I'll guess 3.5 - 2.5 for GM Morovic. It sounds like you are right. I was responding to his post directly and should have payed more attention to the whole context of the discussion. I notice a lot of this in the group and sometimes just plain misunderstanding. So Ed never really refused to play, he just didn't think Rebel10 was ready for it. At any rate, I suspect Ferret is a top program, based on it's excellent results on the chess servers. Also Roman told me that he was very impressed with Ferret so my feeling (without actually knowing this) is that Ferret is a worthy adversary too. - Don
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