Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:16:02 08/26/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 09:27:26, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On August 25, 2000 at 09:19:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Since Rebel team would resign just to have Chess Tiger with a possibility of >>winning the title. > >You are as wrong as when you predicted a draw in the Rebel-Nimzo game. Ed is >incapable of such an "arrangement". > >It seems you dislike Rebel and its team. But, please, keep your personal >dislikes to yourself. A couple of points. When this happens they sometimes decide not to pair the two programs, or to pair them in the first round, in order to avoid the *hint* of impropriety. The tournament director would not allow anyone to resign in a position that isn't lost, these days. This bogus resignation ploy was tried successfully in a game between two Fidelity machines some years ago, and it was allowed then. bruce
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