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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