Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:09:56 11/30/03
Go up one level in this thread
On November 30, 2003 at 07:05:36, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >What a WCCC. I guess all participants and TDs are a few years older by now and >need some vacations ;-) i thought those guys in charge were old BEFORE the tournament. :-)) >Anyway, big compliments and congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and his great >program Shredder. Also congrats to the very unlucky Frans Morsch and his Fritz. >Both programs really played great chess! Of course shredder plays good chess. Of course Fritz was strong this tournament. But IMO the title belongs to Fritz. Due to a wrong decision of Jaap van den Herik the title goes to Shredder. >About the 3-fold repetition issue - after Gian-Carlo's statement here, that >Jonny didn't know about 3-fold repetition at all, but only the fritz-gui, >i'll think the decision made by the TD was finally correct. > >Regards, >Gerd The decision is/was not correct. IMO the conclusion out of this should be that Jaap retires and stops to be tournament director at all. And i don't think Levy would be any better. Those guys are IMO so much used they should consider to retire and stop to manipulate their championship due to ignorance, imcompetence and personal failures. Make the way for fresh people who are capable to direct a tournament without false decisions and wrong behaviour. Bring back the sports spirit and the fairness spirit into computerchess. BTW: i find it unfair that stefan accepted the wrong decision of Jaap. "Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen." Both programs are strong. but a competition should be fair. and when a program has a bug, and another claims a repetition, and the operator and the TD are both blind, under drugs or stupid, or just overloaded, it should not result in a WRONG decision.
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.