Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:03:14 05/17/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 20:01:08, Hans Gerber wrote:
>On May 16, 2000 at 19:02:28, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>(snip)
>
>>Allow me an analogy:
>>You get a piece of homemade pie at a friend's house, which you eat down to the
>>last crumb. Which of the following do you do? :
>>
>>a) Tell him/her thanks for the pie.
>>b) Tell him/her you've had better.
>>
>> Albert Silver
>
>
>Good analogy. For me it's as if F. Morsch had told b) to Tiviakov.
>But he should have told him a) and then should have resigned.
>
>:)
I've understood that, but I'm not convinced. First of all, I haven't heard bad
accounts about Morsch's character, so I'm inclined to believe his motives were
honourable, and second, from a sporting point of view, I wouldn't have resigned
as a player had I been in Fritz's point of view. Í don't think I would have
insisted on trying to swindle him on time, but I think I would have done as was
done by Morsch: offered a draw. He wants to rant on on how won he was, that's
his own tough luck. Time is DEFINITELY a part of the game. Why shouldn't he have
to pay for his inability to manage his time? 30 moves are played, I have 30
minutes left, and my opponent 30 seconds. Whose fault is it that time will
probably beenfit me. If extra time was spent finding superior moves, less time
will compensate for that later. I may be against the machine's presence in a
national championship, but once the clocks are ticking, and both have agreed to
play, I see no reason to start making exceptions in the rules of that individual
game.
Albert Silver
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