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Subject: Re: Scandal is the immediate draw after sac of RxN!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:37:27 02/09/03

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On February 09, 2003 at 04:59:45, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On February 09, 2003 at 04:17:20, Michael Cummings wrote:
>
>>On February 09, 2003 at 03:57:29, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2003 at 03:49:28, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 08, 2003 at 23:26:05, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>To clarify, if you saw two GM's or any players for that matter at the same
>>>>>position as Kasparov and DJ were at. How many would have agree'd to a draw?
>>>>>
>>>>>I have been looking through my database of chess games for draws, and I have yet
>>>>>been able to find one that agreed to a draw being 1 pawn and a queen each down.
>>>>>
>>>>>Maybe someone else can find a game in which this has happened. drawing a game
>>>>>with 98% of the pieces still in play?
>>>>
>>>>??
>>>>
>>>>Do you actually play chess?
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>I appreciate his reflection but he put it into a wrong question. And all others
>>>followed him on that road - to my big surprise - as if they all had no
>>>understanding of chess.
>>>
>>>The end of the 6th is not sensational because of the quantity of material left
>>>or the number of moves being played.
>>>
>>>The scandal is this:
>>>
>>>There is no example IMO in human chess where a player - in that early stage -
>>>sacrificed the "quality" (R against N or B) JUST to offer a draw!
>>>
>>>Rolf Tueschen
>>
>>Yes that is what I meant. I thought I did say it that way, oh well
>
>Then niether of you or Rolf _actually_ play chess!
>
>You guys suck! Patzers! Ha!

Wrong logic.
Sacrificing quality and offering a draw later is not something common
so ignorance about cases that it happens is not a proof that the player does not
play chess.

Uri



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