Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:18:03 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 12:53:14, Michel Langeveld wrote: >Translated from Dutch: >original: http://www.nkschaken.nl/schaken/verslag/15mei.htm > >The game Fritz SSS* - Sergei Tiviakov had a exciting but also strange end. In >the entire long manouvrer game had Tiviakov a better position. After he came >ahead a pawn, seemed the GM heading towards victory. > >But because the game came in his final stage the clock also began to speak his >word. Frans Morsch offerd Tiviakov with only 2 minutes on the clock a draw. The >GM from Groningen refused the propasal and made two moves later with 115...Kxf5 >in stead of Ke4 an error. Out of his concentration black offered at the 117th >move himnself a draw. After the game Sergei was very disappointed. "I played >well. And against every human I had won this game. The machine didn't show >respect to me and played on time." Frans Morsch wasn't aware of the harm and >apologized himself, but that was a bitter taste for the ex-Russian who felt >himself the moral winner of the game. Moral winner? What's that? He was offered a draw and refused. Later he lost on time. Nothing unusual about that. Hundreds of games are lost on time. OK, give the GM a point in the Heaven of morality and let him lose the point in the realm of chess. Fernando
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