Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:22:04 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 11:46:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Oh well, perhaps you are fully right. Yo are convincing. But then, if truth, K. >was part of a farse. An unconscious part, maybe. I want to tink an unconscious >one. As you say, "if I get all, they will not use me anymore for these >matches". But then it could happens that some of what I have said really >happened, also. I mean, If I drop somewhat my strenght for playing tennis with >my children in order to let them to get some games, or if I drop attention >because my overwheelming superiority, then it can happens that they enhance his >own game and I get caught in really good play from them I and I begin to lose >games because of that. >Probably there is some mix of all of this. >Of course all wold be extremely clearer if the priz ewas concocted in other way. >Everything or nothing or almost. >My best >Fernando I'm not entering the "conspiracy theory battle". But I can think of several reasons for the match to go as it did. One from personal experience. My son and I used to play 2 on 2 basketball in our neighborhood. I played High School and Junior College basketball, and I continued to play for most of my adult life in intramural league play at the two universities where I have worked. My son was in the 10-year old range and we were playing pairs of players with players that were generally older than him, but not quite up to handling me as an adult. We could generally win most games with ease, but I usually tried to "make things interesting". And, on occasion, I would let up a bit to keep the game close, and suddenly a couple of lucky shots by the opponents and we lost. Didn't happen often, but that is possible. Of course there are many other equally probable reasons as to why the match ended up at 4-4 after starting off 3-1, but I'll leave those for another topic...
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