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Subject: Re: Leiden depressions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:30:26 11/05/01

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On November 05, 2001 at 05:57:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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?

It is different.
I understood that the problem here is not the fact that you did not want a draw
in a drawn position(it is your right to hope for a mistake of the opponent) but
the fact that you did not let the opponent to restart winboard.

>
>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.

I did not know that you warned Bas that he should operate faster.

Uri



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