Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 02:57:56 11/05/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 05:33:51, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: I operated DIEP for years in textmode when diep was winboard. Note that Tao was going to the wrong corner with king in the end. there were a bunch of passers on the board. Diep had dangerous h2 passer. Tao 2 easily stopped passers. by giving away passers tao could win piece but get a draw. However tao had +0.80 or whatever, so it wanted to win. So it would have lost. I've seen it many times. King was already going to the wrong corner to prevent repetition. I'm sure that if he used textmode, because i couldn't adjust time in xboard, like i have done so many years, he would have lost more operator time, like i lost on average 20 minutes to connection + operator time when playing remote. In that case he would have been at 'bullet' level sooner with Tao and i would have won the game easily. Now people go complain about sportmanship. Am i allowed to take back bad moves of DIEP next tournament, or use up 89 minutes for the first 39 moves so that it plays better there and then claim a draw with 1 minute left based on 'sportmanship' rules? My tip to you guys is: drop winboard if not then improve winboard. Note that against Quark i lost more time than he lost against me in that game he mentionned. I walk away nearly every move. I lose on average 30 seconds a move in the first 30 moves of the game, *only* because i walk away. I adjust time however. Last part of Tao game i operated myself without walking away much. Of course Bas lost loads of time. I even warned him around move 40 that time would be a crucial factor in this game if he operated on so slowly - he didn't listen. Only when he had left 15 minutes on clock he realized he lost time. If Bas was in doubt what i had moved i even announced my move, up to the last moment. Perhaps learn chess a bit? I forfeited on time against Junior in world champs 2000. Diep was a pawn up in the rook endgame. Junior was going with king into wrong corner at that moment. Even though most likely it would have become a draw, i forfeited because i didn't make time control on 20 seconds. DIEP had a fail low from +1.5 to +1.0 and used up, completely to my amazement, all its spare time. Normally it would have thought only 90 seconds there or so and i would have had left 3 minutes til time control. Time is a factor which has been deciding dutch open tournament in the past a lot, so it has in world champs. The titles The King got itself were all based upon games won because of time. Best regards, Vincent >On November 05, 2001 at 01:30:40, Christophe Theron wrote: > >> >>I have never seen a commercial programmer behave in the way you describe. Can >>you mention one? >> >>It's not about being commercial anyway, it's about being a gentleman. >> >> >> >> Christophe > >Well, I believe a good operator should be willing to do ANYTHING (within the >rules of course) to increase the scoring expectance of the program. I do not >think it has to do with being gentleman or not. >José.
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