Author: Roger
Date: 16:22:12 03/23/00
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It was supposed to be an internet match...I don't think Xie had any foreknowledge that the course of events would fail. They had changed the software used to link up, if I understood correctly. She couldn't know it would fail, or that it would continue failing. I have problems with the net that are intermittant sometimes, and then clear up. I'm not even sure what kind of power she had in "choosing." In any case, I think it was clear to her that the personalities involved had been intractable from the beginning, and that she simply didn't want to go on with what had become rediculous. Rather than deal with them, she simply quit, because she could under the rules. Nothing wrong with that...I don't play chess with a**h*les either, no matter who they are. Raj On March 23, 2000 at 13:44:48, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 12:18:13, Roger wrote: > >>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 > >Yes, but it was messed up exactly because they were not using the phone. All of >the problems that she complains about could arguably have been solved if they >switched to the phone early in the match. The phone is really the silver bullet >in this situation. > >After they started messing around with the time controls, I think the match was >a joke and nothing would have changed that. But if they had switched to the >phone early on, all of that would have been avoided. > >If you're presented with two options, one of which is known to work great, and >the other quite clearly sucks, which would you choose? Xie chose the option that >sucks, and then she complained about it. In the words of Eric Cartman, "Super >weak." > >-Tom
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