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Subject: Re: Some more facts about Sergei Fritz SSS* - Tiviakov

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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