Author: Adrien Regimbald
Date: 17:11:08 05/17/00
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Hello, >I only personally know one arbiter. I know several GM players. I asked two >GM players on ICC, one IM on ICC, one GM via phone, and the one arbiter I know >via email. _none_ thought it a reasonable interpretation of the rules to allow >a draw just because the human was down on time, and up a pawn or two in >material. One GM laughed and asked "Does that mean that if my opponent gets >into time trouble, and I sac a knight to start an attack, that he can now >claim a draw since he is almost out of time, and has more material?" Please quit misrepresenting what I say! If someone asked me: "Should someone be given a draw just because they are up two pawns but down on time?" My answer would be: "No" !! You are presenting the situation in a light that the people you are asking are going to say no, and that is an extremely poor manner of trying to prove your point. Of course they are going to say no when you present it like that, I would say no too. You are catering the way you ask your question to these people in such a way that they will respond in the way that you want. I am not going to argue with you over this unless you can get the issue straight - I did not at any point say that the draw being given was because "Player x is up two pawns and down on time" - that is something that you came up with on your own. I was discussing the position in the game Fritz vs Tiviakov before the operator offered the draw. That very position in particular, not some general criteria of being up two pawns and down on time. If you can't discuss this issue based on the merits of claims actually made, please don't waste our time with further opinions from people you know about an issue completely misrepresented from the one at hand. An analogy to what you are doing: You've been asked to invite all of the local masters to a special tournament. You don't want player x to attend the tournament because you don't get along well with him. However, you are obligated to at least make an effort to ask him, so you call up player x and say: "Would you like to come to this tournament I am holding? It is not really a very important or prestigious tournament and nobody interesting is showing up though" What do you think the answer is likely to be? You already know what the answer is going to be! You are setting up player x to give the response you want - "No, I'm sorry, I don't think I will attend". You are doing the same thing in your presentation of this situation to that arbiter and whatever GMs you have asked about this. If you are more interested in proving your point at all costs than you are in finding out the truth, please keep your opinions to yourself. Regards, Adrien.
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