Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 05:05:11 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 07:28:47, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 30, 2003 at 07:05:36, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>What a WCCC. I guess all participants and TDs are a few years older by now and >>need some vacations ;-) >> >>Anyway, big compliments and congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and his great >>program Shredder. Also congrats to the very unlucky Frans Morsch and his Fritz. >>Both programs really played great chess! >> >>About the 3-fold repetition issue - after Gian-Carlo's statement here, that >>Jonny didn't know about 3-fold repetition at all, but only the fritz-gui, >>i'll think the decision made by the TD was finally correct. >> >>Regards, >>Gerd > >How can GCP know about Jonny's knowledge? Don't know, i guess by talking with Johann Zwanzger. >The fact that the interface claimed a draw does not prove that Jonny did not do >it when the interface hide jonny's announcement. > >I think that Jonny's knowledge is also irrelevant. > I don't think so, but obviously there is a lot of room for interpretation. But finally the TD has to decide. >Jonny was allowed to play under chessbase interface so the player who >participated was practically a team of Jonny and chessbase interface and it is >possible that chessbase interface also influenced results of Jonny in previous >rounds. Yes, that's always a problem and should be prohibited in future events. But if it escalates in such a decisive worst case manner in conjunction with a bug in shredder and in conjunction with the move was already played, one has to prove whether Jonny's logfile shows draw score or not, IMHO. > >Changing the player in the last round is unfair so the player who played in the >last round should be also the team. > >If you do not want to allow claiming draws by the chessbase interface then you >should care to tell the participants before the first round that using the >chessbase interface is not allowed. > >Uri May be because it was out of imaginativeness by the people who made the rules. It also happens in other areas that rules had to be modified, if something none intended happens you never considered before. Gerd
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