Author: Roger
Date: 09:18:13 03/23/00
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You asked how using the phone could mess the situation up anymore than it was. I think that's exactly the point, Tom. The situation was already messed up beyond anyone's ability to see how it could be messed up any more. Leaving the net for the phone was "the last straw," so to speak, and opened her up to being forced to participate in a new set of problems (see Tina's post below). She could choose to embrace the new problems, or not...She chose not. I don't blame her at all. Roger On March 23, 2000 at 03:26:05, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 02:27:29, Roger wrote: > >>Tom, >> >>I completely disagree. As I said, no chess game takes place in a vacuum. You >>have to consider the TOTAL SITUATION. If you start pulling out little pieces of >>the situation, you can argue almost anything you want. >> >>So you are saying that if the games had started on time, and that if the >>connection was perfect, Xie would have found some other reason to bitch and >>cause trouble? I doubt it, otherwise she would never have agreed to the games to > >No, not at all. > >I just think she should have continued the match via telephone. I basically >don't understand her reason not to. I mean, yes, using the telephone is sort of >a breach of contract, it is something that was not agreed upon, it is changing a >situation that is already messed up. > >However, how could using the phone possibly mess up the situation any more than >it already was? And it's not like using a phone is rocket science. It would not >have made anything more complicated. On the contrary, it would have simplified >everything and made it work. But oh well. > >-Tom
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