Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 15:45:23 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 18:14:46, Adrien Regimbald wrote: > >Some of you seem to think that the operator was doing Tiviakov a favour by >offering a draw with 2 minutes left. This is completely untrue. Tiviakov at >any time could have stopped the clock, called over the TD and claimed a draw. >Also - if Tiviakov thought he couldn't have won the game considering the >situation on the clock, he would have offered the draw himself - he clearly >thought he still had chances to win the game! > Hi Adrien, What you say about being able to claim a draw in a winning position is true, but the position must be very easy to win, with absolutely no chance of a blunder, and no chance for the weaker side to try to complicate the game and play for a swindle. In the USCF, there used to be a rule of thumb used by tournament directors to determine if a position met these criteria. The rule stated that if a 1500-rated player could hold (win or draw) the "winning" position against a Grandmaster, then the player with this position could claim a draw to avoid losing on time. I don't think yesterday's Fritz-Tiviakov game would have met this requirement. By the way, this whole mess is a textbook example of why sudden death time controls are stupid. This whole controversy could have been avoided with a simple 5 or 10 second increment per move in the final time control. --Peter
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