Author: José Carlos
Date: 16:09:01 09/05/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 18:20:00, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 05, 2002 at 18:01:03, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: > >>I do not play chess tournaments, but am aware of various time controls, and the >>perceived demand in the professional world (marketing, if not playing) for >>shorter time controls. >>I recognise it would be better to do away with adjournments because computers >>and databases deal with them too efficiently. > >I do not know about tournament with adjournments in the last years. >I remember tournaments with adjournments only many years ago. > >Unfortunately it seems to me that tournament with adjournment are hostory. > >I do not buy the excuse that people can use computers in the adjournment because >in the past they could also use advices of other players in the adjournment so >if today computers are reason to avoid adjournment then it means that humans >were a good reason to avoid adjournment in the past. > >Uri You got a point, but I disagree. I remember a Spain-ch (1994 I think). I was playing there but my results were quite bad. A friend of mine had an adjourned game against a very proud guy. My fiend was a pawn down in a rook ending. A frind of the other guy said "my friend's gonna win easily because I'm helping him analyze". So I took the bet and helped my friend. I didn't care standing awaken all night long because I had a bad tournament. So we did. At near 4am we found a very deep and interesting idea. We felt happy and kept analyzing. Later on we thoght it shold be drawn. I said "go to bed and sleep a couple of hours, I'll review the analysis. When he woke up, I told him everything seemed to be right, we reviewd all the lines and he went to play. I was crashing, but couldn't help watching the game. It was so exciting. There came a new adjournment, in a pawn ending. A pawn down, but most probably drawn. We went analyzing again. Draws everywhere. And again to play. Damn! the opponent had found something. It seemed he could win. I was dead tired and couldn't see a draw, but my friend thougth for half an hour and found a great idea. Final result: draw! I was sooo happy! Well, with computer analysis all of this is gone forever. That's very sad. José C.
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