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Subject: Re: 2 Testpositions from Leiden

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:25:09 10/22/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 10:20:30, Johan Hutting wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 03:03:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2002 at 02:39:00, Tony Werten wrote:
>>
>>>>p.s. What I want to know is how Djenghis drew ANYBODY. It sure played some poor
>>>>chess in the earlier rounds.... Well, I just looked at the game, and Djenghis
>>>>actually gave away the win.... Sad....
>>>
>>>He had a choice: take the draw or go for the win with the risk of running out of
>>>time. Since the timing had been very bad he choose for the draw. ( With some
>>>subtile pressure from his opponent "if you want a draw you should offer it now
>>>because I'm not sure I will take it in a few moves" )
>>
>>No
>
>Yes
>>
>>Based on looking at the game it was not a draw offer.
>
>Tony's explanation is what happened, I was standing next to the author of Shark
>when he offered it (twice!). This may have to do with Shark winning on time
>saturday while Celes had a mate in 5 in the final position. I wouldn't be happy
>with 2 wins on time in lost positions. Perhaps if I was commercial and going for
>the top spots, but still...
>>
>>It seems that Djenghis has no repetition detection(otherwise I cannot understand
>>the move Ke4)

The final position in the pgn that I downloaded was a draw position.
If what you say is correct then it means that the pgn is wrong.

Uri



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