Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:16:45 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 04:38:10, Hans Gerber wrote: >You "have no idea...". Let me help you. Your reasoning is completely off the >mark. > >1. Tiviakov did _not_ claim victory when he was under time pressure in a won >position. >2. Tiviakov did _not_ claim draw when he was under time pressure in a won >position. >3. It was F. Morsch who dared to propose draw in the time pressure of the human >player and in a completely lost position. >4. F. Morsch behaved impolitely and without respect. Because you don't propose >draw in lost positions (as operator of a machine). > >Your "I have no idea..." is typical for people who work on the machine's side. >You are lacking of the necessary education in chess. Your machines might play >like masters but you are not operating like masters. That is the problem. Your >article demonstrated that you can't have a clue why a certain codex of behavior >in chess does exist at all. I am an inactive USCF expert. I claim no great knowledge of chess manners, but you can't state that all people above a certain rating threshold, coincidentally including you, would agree with you. This is demonstrably false. I just asked a GM on ICC, and here is the question and the response. I don't know who this guy is, his name isn't in his notes and he's not in gm-bio. aics% . i am playing in a tournament game, with long time control and sudden death at the end aics% . it's an ending and i'm dead lost but my opponent only has a minute left aics% . is it acceptable to try to run them out on the clock aics% . is it acceptable to offer a draw? aics% [name deleted](GM) tells you: I think, yes I also asked another titled player who is rather close to this event, and he said that he didn't think that Frans had "any bad intention at all". bruce >I tried to explain this already in the discussion about DB team's psychowar >against Kasparov -- the _insult_ there and here in case of F. Morsch lies in the >lack of respect for the performance, for the existence itself of the human >chessplayer. Operators or creators of a machine should dissapear behind their >machine. They should _not_ take part as actors. Simply because they come from a >different sphere. _They_ don't play chess but their machine does. The best >solution would be if the machine would play completely on its own. A whole game. >A whole match. A whole tournament. Operator should be someone who has no >understanding for chess at all. However he should be educated in good manners... > >Baseline. It's an act of unbelievable misbehavior if the operator begins to >gamble for a point in a lost position. It's a scandal if the people behind the >project decide to grant some players a quick draw while they want to squeeze >others.
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