Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 08:37:57 05/16/00
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Okay, I withdraw my statement over the possible rudeness of the proposal, although from the reaction of Franz Morsch after the Tiviakov complaint I *personally* have a different view; I certainly have no intention of disqualifying your opinion, though. We all here are chess players, and as *I'm* not in the least disturbed or brought out of concentration by a (genuine) draw proposal, *others* might be, so I am not to judge here. The original point of the protest by Tiviakov however is that he claimed Fritz should have resigned. *That* I strongly disagree with. And I think you do too, because you yourself state that Tiviakov might have won, or even drawn by repetition, so the same could go for Fritz. There is simply no telling what the outcome would have been without the draw proposal. Your observation is right. But even as it sometimes is happening, I think it's wrong to rule this game a win for Tiviakov based on his assumption that *in lost position* against an opponent in *time trouble* you should *resign*: - as there's no telling how it is going to end - as you stated- it could go right or wrong for both parties, so resigning nor drawing is justified (as long as there is mating potential); - people who consume more time thinking are playing *stronger* (at least that goes for GM's); they shouldn't however be granted a time advantage over their opponent who *is* sticking to the limits of time. The ultimate -and theoretical- result -as said elsewhere- could be a draw claim by a weak player in time trouble against a strong player after just one move; as the position is clearly a draw, there should be a draw. Tournament chess is -as said before- a combination of playing a agreed number of moves in an allocated time slot. If you play the wrong moves, you lose, if you use up the time slot, you lose also. So: my observation about the draw offer may be wrong, but the argument that Tiviakov presents (Fritz should resign because he's in lost position while I should win although I'm in time trouble) is plain invalid. Jeroen ;-}
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