Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:30:20 11/12/98
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On November 12, 1998 at 04:57:12, Amir Ban wrote: >On November 11, 1998 at 20:08:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >> >>Yes, but only for the worse. Ie he ought to have simply said "I screwed up, >>I didn't prepare well, I tried the wrong kinds of openings, I practiced against >>a micro thinking that would help but it didn't, I listened to the wrong >>people, I got tired, etc..." Instead he started accusing the DB team of >>dishonest behavior. And as I said, in "academia" there's hardly any worse >>insult. To do so is bad enough, but to do so with no evidence of any kind >>is *really* bad. And some examination with Fritz or another program would >>have shown him that all was on the up-and-up had he taken the time. But he >>just came out swinging instead.. >> > >Point of order: > >Kasaprov raised the suspicion of cheating BEFORE he lost the match, after the >3rd game. He repeated it in the press conference after the 5th game (when he got >annoyed at IBM for ignoring this). He lost the match the day after that. > >He did not make this up to excuse losing the match. Psychologically, it was >unwise of him to get heated over this with half the match still to play, but >that's not the same as being a sore loser. For all I know, he expected to be a >"sore winner". > >Amir Actually he did "both". He raised the cheating issue in mid-match. He went further after the match was over (This was about a big company out to get Garry Kasparov, etc...) and he continued this long *after* the tournament was over. IE this was a long-going thing that only started after game 2/3... As I said before, you simply *DON'T* accuse someone of cheating unless you are *certain*. And if you yourself have been caught cheating in the past (can you spell Polgar?) then you *really* ought to be careful with the accusation. The Be4/Qb6 issue *could* have been explained if he had investigated... Because both Bruce and I played with this and found that Qb6 doesn't win a pawn as he so boldly and forcefully proclaimed. And if he had invested that time, none of this would have happened. Or if he had simply kept his mouth shut *until* he had time to properly investigate, he would also have not said anything. But he just opened his mouth and inserted his foot promptly...
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