Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:56:47 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 15:09:59, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 13:09:13, Christian Söderström wrote: > >Hi Christian, > >>Cheers from me to the operator for accepting the draw, it makes >>me respect the Rebel team even more! > >I agree completely with you. Ed's decision to accept the draw was very >sportsmanlike. A few moves earlier Ed had offered a draw, so it could have ended >at this point. Now the game has the same result, with a few moves more. It >doesn't matter, as the match was won anyway. > >And: In one of their matches Kasparov also accepted a draw offer in a winning >position vs. Karpov, knowing he would win the match and the world title. The >goal was to win the match today and not to make it 4-2. > >Jeroen I disgaree about the goal. I like more bobby fisher's goals. He tried to win every game and was very happy to win matches 6-0 I think that offering a draw when you know that the opponent has better position is a bad behaviour(Van der Wiel should resign and not offer a draw). Unfortunately I know that humans often offer a draw in a bad position and this behaviour is not only Van der Wiel's behaviour. Uri
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