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Subject: THE JUNIOR CASE !!

Author: pete

Date: 11:52:54 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 12:00:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>Ban left the cct tourney, because Hyatt was censoring him. Actually, he seems,
>he left 3 minutes after Bob removed him his censor list. So junior will be
>forfeited and the round re-paired. Everybody is pissed at Ban.

Sorry to use the Caps Lock but something important hasn't been posted yet.

Junior is still in the tournament is the new TD's SJLIM decision posted in
channel 164 ; the re-pairing was done due to the fact that else crafty would
have got a free win which seemed unfair to many . So only this round is a loss
for forfeit which is perfectly normal . Several participants have posted that
they would be happy to see Junior continuing to play and I should add that I
agree here.

End of official part .

My personal opinion is that Mr Bans behaviour showed a complete lack of respect
to the _other_ participants ( there are more participants than crafty and Junior
)

While for Mr Ban this is maybe "just another tourney " for some of the Amateur
programmers this was maybe the "Event of the year " ( when it is about
computerchess ) with much effort put in .

And the junior case for example completely screwed the round , the preparation ,
the fun for all of them . This event started and hopefully will continue in a
very friendly and fair way . Can't you just fight your personal fights in
private ?

How about such a thing as sportsmanship ?

I should again repeat this is nothing more than _my_ personal opinion .

pete aka gambitmaster



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