Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:06:04 11/07/98
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Hi Bob et all: Well, maybe there is a way to explain both the feeling that GM hide and the feeling that they does not. If I did not understand bad, GM seems to be more willing to play speed games in the Internet in the more or less casual way that games are played, with an spirit of "let's get some fun for a couple of minutes with half my mind on it". But when a match is prepared, when all comunity -as in the case of Ferret-Morovic- was going to look, when the rules would be the same as in real stuff or even if nobody else will look BUT the match is somewhat prepared and arranged with a degree of seriousness, then the all thing changes enterily of aspect. They know that in these last conditions no excuses will be allowed, that is serious game and competition instead of the "casual" look an internet speed game have and that his colleagues will say "Hey, GM so- and-so was beaten by a piece of furniture, ha ha". Besides we have the side of what you can lose if you lose. IM and Fide master does noit lose the same as a GM if they lose to a computer, that's clear. So, in order to discriminate this point we should make a clasification of chess player according if they are GM or just IM, if they were asked to play only speed games or tounament games and if the games were more or less prepared or just causal. If we do that we can decide, I hope, about this issue. Fernando
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