Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:04:31 08/08/98
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On August 08, 1998 at 16:48:06, Leon Stancliff wrote: >On August 08, 1998 at 16:02:44, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On August 08, 1998 at 15:19:27, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>On August 08, 1998 at 14:27:17, odell hall wrote: >>> >>>>Are their currently any opinion polls as to the outcome of the marovic ferret >>>>match? If not I would like to start with Mine, I perdict that in a six game >>>>match Ferret will score atleast 3 points!!! >>> >>>Unless Bruce has done something really awful to ferret for this match. I will >>>say Ferret wins no matter how many games are played. I don't know Marovic, but >>>my prediction is if Ferret does well we will not see six games. I hope I am >>>wrong about the six games but that is my Prediction. >> >> >>Hi: >>Just a tiny correction: is Morovic, not Marovic. Another one: is a 2600+ player, >>not a 2500 one :-) >>Fernando > >Fernando's correction is well taken. A difference of 100 rating points is >expected to produce a 64% to 36% win for the higher rated player. I predict >Morovic will win by a score of 4-2 if the match goes six games. However, since I >have noticed a strong hesitancy on the part of GMs to suffer humiliation, I >agree with the previous remark that if Morovic does not break even in the first >two games, there will not be six games! I also hope I am wrong. >Leon Stancliff I hope Bruce wins 6-0, but I'm afraid that it could easily end up 0-6 against a GM this strong. All depends on how seriously he takes the games, and how carefully he controls the game. Should be interesting...
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