Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 04:40:18 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 06:54:33, Andrew Williams wrote: >On March 22, 2000 at 18:10:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>It is very easy to taken in by Xie jungs open letter where she tries to curry >>sympathy with the chess loving masses-and try to drum up opinion against >>junior.however one snetence gives the game away-her refusal to play by >>telephone-i dont see the diff between playing over the net (which after all is >>nothing but a telephone line) and playing over a conventional phone-in either >>case it would be very difficult to verify cheating unless an unbiased moderator >>was physically present at each site. >> >>Her refusal to play by phone when the internet connections were down completely >>exposes her thoroughly >> >>rajen > >First and foremost, if her contract stipulated playing via the internet, she >would have every right to say that the internet should be the medium of the >match. She could have a reasonable concern, for example, that clock issues >would not be handled satisfactorily without an automatic interface. > >Furthermore, I don't think we're clear about the playing conditions at her >end. Was she playing on the computer? Or did she have a board and pieces as >well? If she was just using the computer, playing by phone would require her >to relinquish the mouse between turns; not a big thing of course, but surely >distracting. > >I would hate to think that the "pool" of world-class players who are willing >to participate in this sort of event is diminishing because of incidents like >this. > >Andrew > >PS I'm not unsympathetic to Amir and Shay here. This can't be much fun for >them :-( Maybe KC should start sponsoring matches played by phone,it would be more in line with their present technical capabilities. It seems that nowadays every match ends in open letters,I will not be surprised if a GM wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in the near future. JAFM
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