Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:42:17 12/12/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 12:52:15, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>>> >>>>AFAIC you have hit an all-time low, as I said to Matt, be careful people might >>>>step on you! >>> >>> >>>When you said that to me, I thought you were referring to the moderators. >>>That's who you were referring to, right? >> >>No Matt, I was reffering to you, it was pretty clear. > > >No, I mean the "people might step on matt" meant "moderators might step on >matt". > >If you meant to imply something else, then you are definitely a comedian. > >:) >Matt He meant "something else". It was a childish comment, as usual. When he "grows up" he will realize that sometimes a game is about winning, other times it is about fun, and other times it is about things like sportsmanship, training, etc. But a tournament is about winning, first and foremost. To suggest otherwise is so far beyond ridiculous that it takes sunlight 6 months to get from ridiculous to there. Chess players are competitors, first and foremost, in tournament play. And if my opponent screws up a won position and lets me escape with a perpetual, I'll take it. The literature is _full_ of such happenings between GM players, and they never get into this sort of nonsensical "but I was really winning, and screwed up, and you are a louse for not resigning and giving me the point. I only made a _small_ mistake." I can see GM Walter Browne falling out of his chair laughing. And he doesn't laugh much in a chess tournament. :) If you said that to him _before_ the game ends, you might have a chance. He might choke so badly laughing that his flag falls before he can regain control. :) Let's see. Should Kasparov have been given a point or 1/2 point in the game he lost so badly against junior, where he had a good position for the entire game and made a single move that blew the game? Should the DB team have given Kasparov credit for blundering in game 6 in 1997 and called the match a draw? Should Shirov, or Kramnik, or ... have expected the same when they lost games they should have won and won games they should have lost? Sort of destroys the idea of "competition"...
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