Author: Amir Ban
Date: 15:13:55 05/12/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 18:06:48, Amir Ban wrote: >On May 12, 2000 at 10:54:31, blass uri wrote: > >>Rebel drew in the last round of the Israeli league. >>Fritz and Junior won other players(I do not remember their name and I think they >>were not strong players) >> >>Shredder lost on time in a winning position against another weak player. >> >>The operator(rami tal) had to do other things like talking in the telephone >>during the game. >> >>Shredder used a time control of 100 minutes/40 moves based on the assumption >>that a difference of 20 minutes is enough. >>Rami tal explained after the game that changing the clock of shredder was >>against the rules because the rules do not let to change the time control of the >>computer during the game without telling it before the game so shredder had to >>lose on time. >> > >This is the most stupid way to lose a game I've ever heard. Shay and I were >there, and would have been able to replace Rami for a while if we'd been told >there's a problem. > >Who told him the time control can't be changed ? I see no reason. Operators are >slow, they drink coffee, they talk on the phone. Why shouldn't the computer be >told the real clock situation ? > >Junior won against Dr. Danny Barash. His Israeli rating is 2290. > >Amir As an afterthought, this was the last league round and Ironi Tel-Aviv didn't have anything to win or lose. I guess they just didn't care. I left before all games completed, but it seemed that my team Rishon-Lezion didn't do well enough and may have lost the championship to Beersheva. Amir
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