Author: Christian Söderström
Date: 14:56:02 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 16:56:47, Uri Blass wrote: >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 That demonstrates egoism. I much prefer altruism, and I am glad that Ed chose to behave in that manner. >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). I agree but that is another issue ;) - Christian
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