Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 10:54:10 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 12:59:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 30, 2003 at 12:11:45, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>you are not fair as you did not read what has been written about what happened. >> >>What happened was allowed by the agreed (by all partecipants) rules. > >You are simply wrong. I was not there but what I wrote/being told makes you wrong, not me. >The operator can _not_ choose to play a move he >wants to play. He _must_ play what the computer says to play. And in this >case the computer said "I claim a draw" I was told that the program did not "claim a draw", this is why you are wrong. >and the operator chose to ignore that >and force the game to continue. > >That is _definitely_ against the rules. It has _always_ been against the >rules. The TD was incompetent for making such a stupid decision. > >There is _no_ wayh to justify this, and the 2003 WCCC title is forever >marred by this stupidity... I think this is quite unfair to the TD director. I will not follow you in making this kind of judgements. It is not in my style. I accept the decision by the TD director whichever it is. >I think it time for the ICGA to fall apart, or else find a good TD. IM Mike >Valvo _never_ allowed such nonsense at all the events he ran. Jaap simply has >no business doing this, it is "beyond his abilities". This is really unfair. I had a different opinion of you being fair. >> >>Maybe we can improve the rules, but we MUST followed and accept them once we >>have accepted them. Both in the good or bad. > >Everybody accepted the rules. But the TD did _not_ follow them. > > >> >>There is no more we can say on thim matter. I understand we may have different >>opinions, but the rules are the rules. > >And the rules were broken... It seems this is your point of view, not everybody's.... > > >> >>Anything more on this matter may be just misleading. > >It is misleading to talk about a ridiculous decision that prevented Fritz >from winning an event it deserved to win? Oh, I forgot which program you >were involved with. :) I did not took any decision. Am I free to tell my point of view or only people that are on one side can? > >> >>Does anyone really believe that we would have been allowed to win the game if >>this was against the rules? > > >Yes, because we watched it _happen_. We are not sponsored by anyone...everybody know it...is seems you do not. > > >> >>I hope to see people talk about the chess games as players and not caring about >>things which have very little to do with chess. >> >>I am wondering if this is a chess site or something else... > >I would be more interested to know if the WCCC 2003 was a chess tournament, >or "somethign else" which is what it appeared to be. If you are a better programmer why you do not show it to us? > >> >>I stated that we would have won the championship no matter anything and we did. > >Ugh... Well, I did...people here wrote my post just after loosing to Fritz. > >> >>Think about how I could knew this from a chess point of view instead of making a >>lot of noise on nonsense things. > > >double ugh... > > > >> >>Pls. speak about chess and chess games, engines etc...otherwise change sport. > >I think I'll go puke... Why not horses? > > > >> >>Sandro Sandro
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