Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 08:12:36 07/11/02
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On July 11, 2002 at 10:53:30, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On July 11, 2002 at 10:49:38, Sylvain Renard wrote: > >>>The rules have been defined at a meeting between Shredder, Junior, Brutus, who >>>also could have come in first, and Prof. Jaap de Heringk. The third game would >>>be with less time for Black but Black only needed a draw. White must win. >>> >>>Rolf Tueschen >> >> I am not criticizing the rules but the way they come and go...! >>Do you know another chess event (or any sport event) >> where rules are decided this way and can change so easily? > >Yes, in my chess club we had a blitz chess tournament at carnival where the >tournament director was allowed to change the rules of chess *during* the games: >"now knights move like queens, and queens like knights", "tourn the board >around" etc. > >Greetings, >Steffen. But for the event here our comparisons have a direct fallacy. The idea that ICCA could have done something wrong in this case is itself wrong. The rules weren't changed as such. The rules were discussed and defined among the specific potential winners before the final round. So, it was something among these three teams. Nothing spectacular. In sports we often have the situation. Also in chess. If after the final round two teams or players have equal scores it's a matter of time, motivation and money of what could be done. I already saw the solution, that someone wanted the trophy so dearly that he gave all the money to the other guy, only for being "champion" in the newspapers. The other guy, a "poor" student was happy too with the prize money. This has no stinking aspects at all. It's a matter of the two winners. I have totally different thoughts actually. If SHREDDER will play the second game in the style of the first, I am obliged to reflect about possible political aspects however. The first game was a joke for a possible World Champion. And then - it's perhaps the true picture of the actual PC computerchess. Slightly below real master chess... ;-) Rolf Tueschen
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