Author: Amir Ban
Date: 00:14:59 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 00:12:30, Mig wrote:
>On February 17, 2000 at 11:48:53, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>
>>So there were no evening hours involved here for Adams. It was pretty much over
>>a few minutes after 5 pm for him, and while I have no first-hand knowldedge
>>direct knowledge of who was driving this I didn't see any real interest in
>>Bermuda in whether we can play
>
>As far as I could tell, and I was on the phone with Adams five times, there was
>no interest in doing anything other than playing. The f-word ("forfeit") was
>only mentioned during the last of these calls, and remember that we had even
>called Postovsky in Russia during this time! When I was first called things had
>already broken down, so I think it took considerably more time. The "final
>deadline" we were trying to meet, and I was on the phone with Shay at the time,
>was 18:00 Bermuda time, or five hours after his day started. Carol, being an
>experienced international arbiter, strictly noted the time of the cut and of
>every phone call.
>
>Nobody was driving this, there was no manipulation while this was happening.
>Adams was sitting there ready to play for over an hour and NEVER said anything
>other than "when can they start? Are they on yet?" I still have the message on
>my cell phone from Carol in Bermuda, coming at 18:30 her time to say that they
>couldn't believe we hadn't called them for half an hour and were leaving.
>
>I firmly believe that if Junior had gotten back online half an hour earlier than
>it did that the second game would have taken place. Anyone crediting Adams for
>wanting to do anything other than play chess that day doesn't know him or his
>reputation.
>
>Saludos, Mig
It doesn't add up. Isn't Bermuda time EST (GMT -5) ? At 18:30 EST we were after
the arbiter ruling, together on our post-mortem telecon.
Anyway, I made the post announcing the draw & 2nd game at 16:43 EST, and the
post announcing the demand for forfeit at 17:25 EST, 42 minutes later. In fact
it happened sooner, while I was out of the office, and I made the "forfeit" post
when I came back and was told that the game's off because Adams wants a forfeit.
This is why I told you that evening when you described a long wait with several
hours of back and forth, that in my opinion all this took place within about 30
minutes. I don't know who told whom what within these 30 minutes, and maybe
there was lack of information about what was going on, but when you've initially
been told that the game will start in 20 minutes, it's not natural to shout
"forfeit" after half an hour without even bothering to check if the game can
start immediately.
Amir
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