Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:04:43 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 22:43:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 22:19:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>So no, his behavior wasn't wrong. He was all that stood between a flagged loss >>after another minute elapsed, and a draw that the GM didn't deserve. He made >>the offer as a gentleman, in a show of sportsmanship. The GM acted like yet >>another ____. (you fill in the blank, you know what _I_ would put there)... > >Supposedly he had two minutes. Perhaps Frans should have waited a little >longer, or waited to be offered a draw by the opponent, but this is a minor >detail and not worth getting worked up about. It's certainly not a point to >raise an official protest over, that seems crazy. > >bruce Did I ever tell you the story about how I became friends with Roman? Back in the early days of Crafty, he was playing one of his marathon matches, when I logged onto ICC (it was FICS at the time, prior to ICC) and started watching. This was also prior to crafty offering or accepting draws, and prior to my using xboard (I was using my own cobbled-together code). They reached a dead drawn ending of some sort, in a 3 0 game. Crafty was obviously going to win on time. I couldn't offer a draw easily back then, but I did have a remote "resign" facility. Which I used. Roman stopped playing, and promptly asked "Why did you do that?" (I made crafty resign in a drawn ending.) I replied "Because I was concerned that if it just ran you out of time, you might get miffed and not play it again. I would rather see you play more games even if it lost a few rating points in doing so." He said, "OK. Thank you. That was very considerate." Since that time, I have talked to him on the phone hundreds of times. He set up the arrangements for Crafty to participate in Jakarta, made arrangements to get the machine time, and made arrangements to pay someone to go and operate. I view that as the best rating decline I ever saw. It paid a lot of dividends. I think Frans did what he did in the same light. He was trying to do the right thing. The whiners are simply out in full force. And a couple of constant "trollers" are keeping things going...
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