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Subject: Re: Deep Junior forced to take null game in won position---BS

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 05:09:46 04/26/02

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On April 25, 2002 at 18:32:37, Otello Gnaramori 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.
>
>Yes, that's ironic, Junior was winning and probably a BSOD or something similar
>to that happened to hang the computer...
>
>w.b.r.
>Otello
 Short for Blue Screen of Death, BSOD is slang for the Windows General
 Protection Fault error message.
 http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bsod.htm



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