Author: blass uri
Date: 01:57:38 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 04:44:27, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >I agree with Bruce. > >I think Tiviakov is a bit extra pissed off now Van Wely has taken the lead alone >with a lighter program ahead. > >I'm sorry but I disagree with Tiviakov. Proper time allocation is part of the >chess game, and particularly on slow time controls a grandmaster like Tiviakov >should plan better. If he didn't, he had too hard a time to fight his opponent. >He resisted him in position but not on time. > >And because of his bad time allocation there was always the possibility he'd >make a blunder, which would have lead to a rapid Fritz win. > >If Fritz still has mating potential, Tiviakov is sour but IMO wrong. > >The draw in this game consists of wining on time but losing on position for >Fritz and the other way around for Tiviakov. Fair. > >I have seen it in my games even more often: I nearly fell to the floor out of >sheer rage that my opponent let me trip on time in a toally lost position, but >after cooling down I had to realize that's the way it is. BTW looking through my >own database I must come to the conclusion that occasionaly I have done well >myself by winning on time. > >If the rule is "losing on time is losing on time if the opponent has still >mating potential" that's it. > >Maybe all you were saying that offering a draw is the rude act, but >accomplishing a result is what's at stake, better: accomplishing the best >possible result. >The more remarkable that if Frans Morsch *didn't* offer a draw, Tiviakov would >have lost for sure. It is not clear that Tiviakov would have lost. He could draw by repetition and I think that he could also stop the clocks and claim a draw. I know that I did the same thing of stopping the clock and claiming a draw in the third Israeli league when I was a pawn down and the decision was to accept the draw because my opponent had no practical chances to win. If similiar rules are in the championship of holland then I think that tiviakov could also draw the game and not only by repetition if frans did not offer the draw. This is the position when I claimed a draw in the Israeli league when I played with white and had only 20 seconds to finish the game: [D]B7/8/8/4npk1/8/8/5K2/8 b - - 0 1 Uri
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