Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:52:51 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 12:31:20, blass uri wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 11:09:22, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On May 16, 2000 at 07:34:15, Frederic Friedel wrote: >> >>Frederic, >> >>I completely agree. What would have happened if Frans would play on >>and win on time? I bet that hell would break loose then.... >> >>Sergei should keep his frustration inside his hotelroom, blame himself >>for not winning the game and apologize for his behaviour. I admire Frans >>for offering a draw, it was a very nice gesture from him. >> >>Regards, Jeroen > >I agree that Sergei should not blame others for his mistakes but I do not think >that offering a draw was a nice gesture from Frans. It was a nice gesture, but apparently the chess players regard it in the same way as if you give a thumb's up to an Israeli or the high sign to an Italian. Regardless, the motivation behind the gesture was "nice". Please pardon me if I've got my nationalities mixed up but you get my idea. bruce > >It is clear that tiviakov wanted to win the game and offering a draw when you >can be sure that the opponent will not agree is not a nice gesture. >If he did not want to win on time he could wait and offer a draw only after >tiviakov does a mistake or after he see that tiviakov has only few seconds to >finish the game and it is clear that he has no chances to win. > >Uri
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