Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:04:14 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 13:18:03, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 If time was not that important for chess I would challenge Kasparov and bet him about half of my hard earn saving close to 55 thousands dollars but I would not lose it in my lifetime, since I would simply make a move once a year. PS: that is the same reason for which I have been saying that Fritz SSS can't lose a match of 7 games against Kasparov, in game in 30 Minutes per side, using the same hardware or better. Jorge
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