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Subject: Re: Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:59:33 11/30/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 12:11:45, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>Hi,
>
>you are not fair as you did not read what has been written about what happened.
>
>What happened was allowed by the agreed (by all partecipants) rules.

You are simply wrong.  The operator can _not_ choose to play a move he
wants to play.  He _must_ play what the computer says to play.  And in this
case the computer said "I claim a draw" and the operator chose to ignore that
and force the game to continue.

That is _definitely_ against the rules.  It has _always_ been against the
rules.  The TD was incompetent for making such a stupid decision.

There is _no_ wayh to justify this, and the 2003 WCCC title is forever
marred by this stupidity...

I think it time for the ICGA to fall apart, or else find a good TD.  IM Mike
Valvo _never_ allowed such nonsense at all the events he ran.  Jaap simply has
no business doing this, it is "beyond his abilities".

>
>Maybe we can improve the rules, but we MUST followed and accept them once we
>have accepted them. Both in the good or bad.

Everybody accepted the rules.  But the TD did _not_ follow them.


>
>There is no more we can say on thim matter. I understand we may have different
>opinions, but the rules are the rules.

And the rules were broken...


>
>Anything more on this matter may be just misleading.

It is misleading to talk about a ridiculous decision that prevented Fritz
from winning an event it deserved to win?  Oh, I forgot which program you
were involved with.  :)


>
>Does anyone really believe that we would have been allowed to win the game if
>this was against the rules?


Yes, because we watched it _happen_.


>
>I hope to see people talk about the chess games as players and not caring about
>things which have very little to do with chess.
>
>I am wondering if this is a chess site or something else...

I would be more interested to know if the WCCC 2003 was a chess tournament,
or "somethign else" which is what it appeared to be.


>
>I stated that we would have won the championship no matter anything and we did.

Ugh...

>
>Think about how I could knew this from a chess point of view instead of making a
>lot of noise on nonsense things.


double ugh...



>
>Pls. speak about chess and chess games, engines etc...otherwise change sport.

I think I'll go puke...



>
>Sandro



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