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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