Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:40:33 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 17:58:02, Dave Gomboc wrote: >I read a pile of posts in this quickly-sprouting thread, and I don't remember >where the one was that I wanted to reply to, so I'll just reply up top here. > >The tournament is supposed to be fun, right? I think that if I showed up to >operate my computer program for a fun tournament to find my opponent censoring >me, I'd feel rather insulted. Leaving is not necessarily an over-reaction. > >Being censored is a serious thing. During the 1999 WCCC some admin censored me. >Apparently they thought they were justified in doing so, but I thought it was >complete bullshit. I talked with another admin, who managed to get the first >one to calm down. Apparently he was stressed out, whatever. I did watch the >remainder of the WCCC, but I never again felt comfortable as a user on ICC. >Even though I had paid the student rate, and could have faxed in a copy of my >student ID to get the remaining seven months, I chose to let my membership >expire. I didn't want anything further to do with ICC. aha.. you get _my_ feeling here exactly. IE _I_ was accused of writing a program and adding code to make it behave in an abusive way. I didn't want anything further to do with the person making that accusation, nor his program. Hence +censor and I didn't have anything further to do with him. > >I think a lot of you are hacking on Amir unjustly. Apparently it was the TD's >(IMO incorrect) decision to re-pair the round that caused a big delay. They >should have continued with the round, and the TD could worry about what to do >with Crafty-Junior after contacting the authors (forfeit, late start with >reduced time controls, whatever). Fact is, the pairings were known a week in >advance, and Bob had plenty of time to uncensor Amir. But uncensoring really >should have been done last weekend, by the time that the first round of the >tournament started. Bob says he forgot about the censoring: fine, we all forget >things sometimes. But to you, the reader, please don't forget that this is not >a simple "Amir bad!" situation. I think that the re-pair was a right decision. It wasn't clear at the time that Junior would continue to participate. It also seemed wrong for the program leading the tournament to get a free point. I should have remembered to uncensor him. I didn't. I'll bet he had forgotten about the censor also until this morning. But in any case, it _was_ fixed at least 10 minutes prior to game-time. > >Dave
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