Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 22:43:21 11/29/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 00:43:55, Terry McCracken wrote: >On November 29, 2003 at 22:00:47, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>While there is a "tie-break" game tomorrow to decide the winner, in my mind >>Fritz has already won. Here is my reasoning behind this. >> >>Fritz won it's last game, and due to incompetant and irresponsible TD management >>in the tournament Shredder won it's last game when it should not have. It should >>have been a draw, plain and simple. There was a bug in Shredder, and the >>operator of Johnny can not ignore that a 3 fold repetition draw occured. >> >>I have seen a program illegally castle due to a bug, and that author was out of >>luck. If the opposite had occured and Shredder was about to be mated, and Johnny >>had the bug, I don't believe that Shredder would not have asked to play on. He >>would have taken his half point and ran. No question. >> >>If I was Frans Morsh I would make a serious official complaint and take his >>rightful place at the top this year. He deserves it. >> >>No matter the result of the games tomorrow, Fritz is the rightful 2003 champion. > >It's unfortunate, but they didn't want to claim the draw. Are you going to >attack the author of Shredder as well? > >Frans is most likely a gentleman, and won't protest the ruling. >I wouldn't. No I am not going to attack Stefan as well. If I was Frans.. I would surely be making a complaint. Even Amir Ban said he would. What does that tell you? Peter.
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