Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:35:37 04/25/02
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On April 25, 2002 at 18:33:30, Roy Eassa wrote: >On April 25, 2002 at 18:30:34, Mark Young wrote: > >>On April 25, 2002 at 18:24:11, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On April 25, 2002 at 18:14:26, Mark Young wrote: >>> >>>>On April 25, 2002 at 17:54:45, James T. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 25, 2002 at 17:40:43, Mark Young wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>. >>>>>Can you give a winning line for the final position. I would be interested in >>>>>seeing a win since Junior couldn't seem to find one. >>>>>Jim >>>> >>>>GM Smirin says the games was lost. GM Smirin offerd his resignation to Shay. >>>>Shay Refused the Resignation and offerd draw. GM Smirin refused to take a draw >>>>in a lost position.....So the game will be replayed. In short DJ won the game, >>>>but for reasons only known to Shay he would not take the win. IMO the win is >>>>valid and he should of taken the win since GM Smirin was in a dead lost >>>>position, the Tech problems happend after the position was dead lost for GM >>>>Smirin. >>> >>> >>>It sounds like Shay offered to resign on Junior's behalf due to technical >>>problems, but Smirin refused the resignation. >> >>That is not what GM Smirin said on Kasparov.com....looking at what he said now >>in game window again....GM Smirin says Shay only offerd to count this as a >>draw...Shay never offerd to resign the game...why would he, Junior won. The >>above statement seems a correct account of what GM Smirin said on Kasparov.com. > > >You're right. I wonder why Shay turned down Smirin's offer to resign? Oops, I remember why. Junior had not shown that it knew how to win (although I suspect it would have found the win eventually).
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