Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:55:32 04/26/02
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On April 26, 2002 at 17:42:47, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >>>Yes, it will played be from scratch, as Friedel said. >>>I wonder if it wasn't possible to "adjourn" the existing game as some >>>commentator suggested. >>>To explain better the procedure the following excerpt is from FICS: >> >>Adjourning would be the same as giving Junior the victory. >>We cannot rule out that Smirin was not distracted by all the problems, >>and in fact lost because of them. > >I don't think so, since Smirin himself was admitting the lose position and >moreover he didn't complaint at all about "distracting" problems to my knowledge, neither Friedel never mentioned about complaint on GM side. Smirin is a sportsman all the way, he could have complained but didn't. I find it hard to believe it did not break his concentration just a little bit. Just the fact that the clocks were wrong must have been distracting. >I only noticed that a major connection problem happened at the ending when he >was already in zugzwang and moreover his position was definitely lost. There were several connection problems as I understand it. Junior never demonstrated a winning line and for some reason didn't play the winning Bc5. Perhaps it does have a bug, we just don't know hence the rematch. And BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if Smirin were to offer a draw should he reach a winning position, any good sportsman would do that given the circumstances. -S.
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