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Subject: Re: Another example :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:41:40 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 03:45:01, Tony Werten wrote:

>On December 10, 2003 at 18:19:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.  :)
>
>Well, the year befor that I lost against Crafty on move 9 when XiniX decided to
>castle while in check :(  (also TD decision)
>
>My main point is that I don't really care if sometimes a bad decision is made,
>as long as it happens only once. The next time the situation happens it either
>has to follow the same decision, or (when wrong ) be a part of the new rules. Of
>coarse one would have to admit begin wrong for that to work.
>
>Nothing is learned from mistakes now. If the same situation arises, decisions
>are made depending on the mood of the TD (it seems), but even worse, I'm
>starting to think the name of the programs involved are also taken into
>consideration.
>

You really think so?

:)

You should replace "think"  by "know".  :)


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



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