Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:28:38 08/10/98
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On August 10, 1998 at 09:48:37, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Morovic-Ferret Postponed until September >I regret to communicate all of you that Ivan has just called me to say that it >is impossible for him to play now as much as his problems with his home removal >are not solved, so he is using all afternoons to look for a new flat and so has >not the time neither the stamina to play now. He promised, nevertheless, to do >it around middle September, after returning a tournament in Europe, but then he >expect to play at most 4 games against ferret, not 6. He is very thankful to all >that people that has offered even more money, although he insist that he would >do it the same without a penny. >I personally regret very much all this as much as I kindled some sparks of >enthusiasm and expectations about, but my effort to persuade Ivan to play >anyway, no matter the problems, was not enough and he refused sternly. I am >sorry and in the very fringe to reach the same conclusion that so many people >reach each time they try to organize something and then fail, the conclusion >encased in that old saying about how better is not do endeavor nothing in order >not to risk nothing. This isn't working out, so I am cancelling, assuming that Morovic doesn't show up on ICC tonight for game one of six. I will have to be there anyway to explain to everyone why there is no game. I am willing to put my reputation on the line in a match with a very strong player at traditional tournament time controls, with no corresponding blitz match I can use to save face by wiping him out, and I am willing to be accomodating and to give him every possible advantage. But I can't have it be of indeterminate and shrinking length. From "six games" to "at most four games" probably means one game, if I lose. And if I lose a one-game match I will be for years the program that was too weak for a GM to play twice. This would be the worst possible outcome, and I think I am justified in avoiding any chance that this will happen. bruce
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