Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:20:45 02/07/03
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On February 07, 2003 at 21:31:48, Graham Laight wrote: >On February 07, 2003 at 20:11:46, eric guttenberg wrote: > >>I have a problem blaming the Junior team for accepting the draw offer; > >1. Mr Kasparov made a clearly inappropriate draw offer > >2. Later, the DJ team didn't ACCEPT a draw offer, they MADE one of their own > >They didn't have to do that. They could have, and should have, played on. > >How would you feel if the doctor declared one of your friends dead if they were >still breathing and talking? You'd be shocked and dismayed. And you'd never >forgive that doctor. And rightfully so. > >-g It is _possible_ that DJ thought it was worse. In such a case, offering a draw was not _that_ bad. Kasparov _could_ have refused it, of course. When the prize fund is awarded in the way it was awarded in this match, what else would you expect? This guarantees another match at some point in time, with _another_ 3/4 million dollars (at least) in his bank account... I suspect he would have played differently had it been with a different set of guidelines for splitting that $1M... > >>I think DJ had the worse position. Probably DJ had no winning chances >>anyway. Why not take the draw offer? >> >>eric
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