TheLamer: They haven't gone unnoticed, just not responded too. Least ways not until right now. Why should I lower myself to his level? I went to the link just now. I didn't see my name in those posts, but I had seen it somewhere else over there where he calls me a weak player and a few other things. He's entitled to his opinion of me. Unlike him, I never said I was all that good of a Chess player. Just because someone can play a game better than myself doesn't make them a better person. It just means they can play a game better than me. He even talks about his misadventures at the Run Around the Pond discussion board. We all know he never even played one game of it under his own handle, but he sure talked a good game of it. His well documented fear of losing any game prevented him from playing Ponds or Dark Chess. It is a shame too. I believe that Ed would probably be the best Dark Chess player of all if he'd just play the game. But as anyone that has played Dark Chess knows, you will lose a certain percentage of games from time to time no matter how well you play.

I just recently read all the posts on this board from it's creation until August 4th, 2004. How he was removed the first time as moderator is quite enlightening compared to how he reveals it on his web site. The first removal:
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Fencer 16. January 2004, 09:31:21
Hi Ed,
I don't like the way how you moderate Gothic Chess discussion board. There are currently 43 banned users and it is not normal. No other board has such problems. Moreover, even if you feel insulted by several other people, you cannot misuse the moderator function to solve your personal problems. A moderator must be kind of adaptable and show some basic diplomatic skills to do the job properly. I've been watching your activities for several weeks [or even months?] and, unfortunately, I don't think that you can moderate any BrainKing discussion board any longer.
I am taking over this board.
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GothicInventor from the Gothic Chess site March 9th 2006
...so I left the moderator function of my own accord. I sent the message to Fencer myself. Subsequently, after several months, I was re-appointed moderator after whoever was in charge was removed, but I was acting in the capacity of co-moderator. I did very little moderation of any kind from that point forward. Again, a few months later, someone named "Bumble" then posted a comment one day saying "who wants to be moderator of this board", and that person took my place. There was no "ousting" of any kind as you suggested


This is not at all what happened. It is me that Bumble removed, not Ed. It was Fencer that Ed replaced as moderator when he came back the second time, not some other person. This happened way before I had ever played Gothic Chess or visited the discussion board. Somehow he got the moderator's job back a few months later. And again Fencer removed him after that time too. It is then that I was made moderator. On my very first visit to the discussion board! Fencer must've really been ticked off at Ed. When Ed was removed the second time there were no Global Moderators. July 9th, 2004 is when I became moderator. My first act was to unban everyone, including Ed. It is Fencer that banned him two more times while I was moderator. I only ever banned two people, danoschek and some guy that posted racial epitats about the losers of the world wars. I will continue my research of my own actions eventually. I learned a few things about people and moderating since those times. Ed's first banning caused a lot of trouble in the discussion board as he had a lot of friends get mad and flame the board as did his detractors. I generally let this go on for awhile. When I finally took sides with those that didn't agree with the game being patented, he went ballistic and got banned again. A few months went by in relative quiet as for some reason the groupies didn't do a "Bring back Ed" campaign this second time around. Then I started to get messages from Fencer to remove the ban on Ed. We sent a few messages about it and I did remove the ban. I also warned Fencer that Ed was trouble and I'd probably not survive as moderator. I was right, but not in how I thought I'd be. The global moderator's position was only a month or two old at this time. I was removed without any notice from them. I have posted at length about this on the BrainKing discussion board about a month after my removal last year. Ed's victory was a short lived one. Fencer abolished the Gothic Chess discussion board shortly thereafter and then removed Gothic Chess from the site completely.


If he wants to re-create history on his site, it is his prerogative. I am surprised that he's letting Thad have his say and that he is responding to Thad's assertions. I remember when Thad was one of Ed's supporters. It reminds me of the saying, "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."


Now that I've played a few games of Embassy Chess I can say the game is superior to Gothic Chess. Not by much, but it is a better game. I don't play the random version of it, so I can't speak for that version. I do know that if it wasn't for Ed and his intransigence over Gothic Chess, those two games would almost certainly not be on this site at this time.

Edit 3-17-6 After further research I have found I was wrong in some of my rememberances listed here. Fencer only banned Ed once while I was moderator, I banned him twice. And the guy with racial epitats was unbanned upon my ousting. I'm going to call it quits again as there's still another 14 pages for me to read.