The most charitable explanation for "Dr." Fred is that he's degenerated into the professional equivalent of those pathetic aging former chess masters who try to eek out a subsistence living by charging five bucks a game. People often play with them out of sympathy, or for the novelty of having lost to a past great. It's part of the chess culture, and it's basically harmless and sort of quaint.
Most of then could still beat your chess game.
The difference, of course, is that its almost impossible to have sympathy for Dr. Fred. His hustle is for a hell of a lot more than subsistence. He was also never actually a master of his field, a fact that becomes increasingly obvious as our exposure to him goes on. Now he's reduced himself to trying to collect someone else's winnings.
Sour grapes, and from an anonymous poster too. Oooo - I'm insulted. I have been thinking about the issues of anonymity for some time, and I have been convinced for some time that you can't have both integrity and anonymity. I thought there might be ways to accomplish this, but the cypherpunks have convinced me it isn't true. Show some integrity and tell us who you are. -- -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236