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Subject: Re: Another example :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:19:25 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 09:56:01, Tony Werten wrote:

>On December 10, 2003 at 04:19:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>Deep Sjeng is playing Junior in the blitz tournament, and in a
>>pretty bad position. I am nervous and in trying to be quickly,
>>I play the wrong move. Normally you can can claim the win
>>instantly. Instead, you consider for a moment, correct the move
>>entered into Junior and play on.
>>
>>Clearly not acceptable as you've just turned a sure win for
>>Junior into a potential loss on time.
>>
>>Shame on you, such a thing is clearly unacceptable :)
>
>Wrong example.
>
>2 Years ago this happended in Crafty-XiniX. XiniX lost the game, then I found
>out that the operator played a different move. Jaap decided to turn the win in a
>draw.

How many bad decisions can one TD make before he doesn't TD any more events?
The above decision was wrong.  You don't arbitrarily change results.  You do
back up to the point where the error occurred, fix it, and play on.

You didn't need to report that error.  :)


>
>
>Tony
>
>>
>>--
>>GCP



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