Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:55:41 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 07:47:26, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 03, 2002 at 04:55:47, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On January 02, 2002 at 20:41:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On January 02, 2002 at 20:29:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >>> >>>>Last, I have no time. Loek van Wely is on the menu and Gandalf 5 is going to >>>>play 4 correspondence games against 4 x IM's. I need all my time for those 2 new >>>>events. >>> >>>Fear or no fear, the net result is that Rebel and Tiger are about >>>the only strong professionals that are missing from the field from >>>what is becoming a more and more important tournament. It seems >>>that your competitors do not have the same reservations as you >>>do. >>> >>> >>>As Dann said, no time is a bad excuse. >> >>You have no right to label it this way. I have listed my objections against this >>type of tournaments quite well. From CCT1 I remember a certain programmer to >>call another programmer a cheater. Being once a victim of such slander which has >>bugged me for years I refuse to put myself into a vulnerable position. >> >>Ed > >If you mean the dispute between Amir and Bob, my memory of it is a bit different >(not cheating) but could be faulty. If it's something else, you'll have to >remind me. I was there handling TSCP for Tom BTW. In any case, they were at ends >due to a dispute that had nothing to do with CCT1, and due to some automated >function in the Crafty account, Amir's account was on the Censor list. When >their round was due to start, Bob hadn't arrived yet, and Amir was on a warpath >claiming this was a deliberate maneuver on Bob's end and claimed he was leaving. >A few minutes later, a couple of minutes before the round was due to start, Bob >arrived and when told about it, corrected the mistake, but Amir wanted some kind >of public apology or something. Eventually they both played as they were th >tournament leaders and Junior went down. In any case, as far as CCT1 is >concerned that's the only issue I can recall, other than Diepeveen's terrible >connection problems, though none held it against him. Please note that both are >in the event. :-) > > Albert No I wasn't aiming at the Amir-Bob case. Ed
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