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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