Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 08:20:15 11/05/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 07:30:26, Uri Blass wrote: >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 This is my last post about this, I just wanted to describe how Vincent got that point, that's all. Vincent did never warn me at all that I should operate faster. On the CONTRARY: not one single time he attended me after pressing the clock when I was not at the table. *My* fault of course. But still, very few try to maximize their chances like that. He knew very well WB time could not be adjusted, I didn't even know it was not possible, simply because it has never been necessary. Bas.
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