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Subject: Re: Is Everyone Forgetting Adams Unsportsmanlike behavior in 2000 vs Deep Ju

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:05:02 05/25/05

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On May 25, 2005 at 20:20:59, James T. Walker wrote:

>On May 25, 2005 at 16:50:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 25, 2005 at 16:24:13, William Sorin wrote:
>>
>>>Adams has demonstrated in the Past that he is a sore loser, Crybaby who will do
>>>anything possible to avoid losing. What he pulled against Deep Junior in 2000
>>>will go down as one of the biggest Shams in Chess History. In an Apparently Dead
>>>lost position, when deepJunior had technical problems, Mr Adams claims a WIn. He
>>>then writes a rambling explanation of this atrocity at Chessbase, adding insult
>>>to injury. Personally I do not want to see this shameful person play either
>>>human or computer.
>>
>>I prefer to see even a player who tried to win by unsportsmanlike behaviour and
>>not a person who does not care about the result.
>>
>>I remember the stupid mistakes of Kramnik against Fritz and it seems that he did
>>not care about the result(in the better case) or lost on purpose(in the worse
>>case).
>>
>>It is no problem to prevent people to earn points by unsportsmanlike behaviour
>>by better rules so I am not afraid that Adams will win again against Hydra by
>>similiar behaviour.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Why would you prefer to see either one?  Both actions reflect badly on the GM
>comunity but on the individuals even more so.  I would prefer to not see either
>type of behavior.

Yes and the point is that Adams behaviour can be easily prevented if there are
clear rules that does not allow the human to claim a win because of connection
problems of the computer.

Uri



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