Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:28:29 10/11/98
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On October 11, 1998 at 12:36:51, odell hall wrote: >Recently on this message board I have read post by several who stated that they >resigned early out of respect and etiquette for grandmasters. Ironically this >same "respect" is not shown by grandmasters as the game below demonstrates. >If i was shroeder I would have felt totally disrepected by GM Akesson who was in >the words of Jerome Noomen "Dead Lost". I get the impression that the >Grandmaster played on out of spite, for he is apparently lost. How else can you >explain his refusal to resign? Surely he wasn't hoping to a blunder by rebel!! > > this isn't the point. I've known several "poor sport" GM players, having seen a good bit of this at a couple of US Opens I went to with Cray Blitz. However, the point about resigning is this: If I want GM players to take my program on, over and over, then I have to do whatever it takes to avoid offending them.. IE in the IBM vs Deep Blue match, IBM had to give in to Kasparov's demands every time, because *he* was the player *they* wanted to beat. And they couldn't *force* him to play. So it isn't a matter of how the GM's behave, it's a matter of wanting to play them, and of doing those things that make them want to come back. Which includes not making them mate Crafty in a KR vs K ending... for example... >[Event "Match"] >[Site "unknown"] >[Date "1997.12.18"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Rebel 8.0"] >[Black "GM Akesson"] >[Result "*"] >[WhiteElo "2450"] >[BlackElo "5225"] >[ECO "B43"] > >1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 b5 7. Bd3 Nf6 >8. O-O Bb7 9. a4 b4 10. Na2 Nxe4 11. Nxb4 d5 12. c3 Nd7 13. Bxe4 dxe4 14. >Qg4 h5 15. Qe2 Ne5 16. Rfd1 Qa5 17. Nb3 Qc7 18. Bf4 Be7 19. Nxa6 Bxa6 20. >Qxe4 Qc6 21. Qxe5 f6 22. Qc7 Bb7 23. Qxc6+ Bxc6 24. a5 e5 25. Be3 Kf7 26. >Nc5 f5 27. f3 h4 28. a6 h3 29. Nd7 Ke6 30. a7 Bb7 31. Nb6 Rag8 32. Rd7 >Bc6 33. Rc7 Kd6 34. a8=Q Bxa8 35. Raa7 Bf6 36. Nc4+ *
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