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Subject: Re: Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen!

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:51:52 12/01/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 08:09:56, Thorsten Czub 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 ;-)
>
>i thought those guys in charge were old BEFORE the tournament. :-))
>
>>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!
>
>
>Of course shredder plays good chess. Of course Fritz was strong this tournament.
>
>But IMO the title belongs to Fritz.
>
>Due to a wrong decision of Jaap van den Herik the title goes to Shredder.
>
>
>
>>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
>
>The decision is/was not correct.
>IMO the conclusion out of this should be that Jaap retires and stops to be
>tournament director at all. And i don't think Levy would be any better.
>
>Those guys are IMO so much used they should consider to retire and stop
>to manipulate their championship due to ignorance, imcompetence and
>personal failures.
>
>Make the way for fresh people who are capable to direct a tournament without
>false decisions and wrong behaviour. Bring back the sports spirit and the
>fairness spirit into computerchess.

It almost sounds like you are volunteering to do that job!  Would you be willing
to be Jaaaps replacement if asked to?

Bob D.


>
>BTW: i find it unfair that stefan accepted the wrong decision of Jaap.
>
>"Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen."
>
>Both programs are strong. but a competition should be fair.
>and when a program has a bug, and another claims a repetition, and the
>operator and the TD are both blind, under drugs or stupid, or just
>overloaded, it should not result in a WRONG decision.



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