Author: KarinsDad
Date: 17:08:13 03/26/99
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On March 26, 1999 at 18:31:36, Hristo wrote: [snip] > >You and Bruce make a bunch of interesting points ... :) >I'd like to concentrate on just a few of your questions(speculations). > >I beleive people and computers have the right to know who is their opponent! >(Why? Because it is a matter of personal freedom to acquire knowledge, which can >aid ones decision.) However nobody should have the means to enforce this data >acquisition !!! (keep in mind the circumstances we are talking about) >This might seem strange. >"A" can ask "B" if "B" is a computer, a human, or a donkey. >"B" has the right to answer, to refuse to answer, to lie. >"A" can use the acquired knowledge and decide to play a game or not. >if "A" decides to play a game, "A" shouldn't go on a "witch-hunt" in case, the >result of the game was unsatisfactory. >.... :) >In real tournaments we play people we hardly know. >Most of the time(in a real tournament) I have no idea what my oppponent would >do, and I don't mean on the chess board(kicking the table, playing with the >wrist watch, clearing his/her throat, .... endless). Anybody knows that among >chess players are some of the strangest, bizare, and funny people. :))) I should >know, I'm one of them ... :)))) But there was that one instance that nothing >could have ever prepared me for. I was in Bulagria playing a Russian guy. He was >an old dude :))) ... After we entered the "dragon" I played a move, I had >prepared at home and felt very good about it. Everything was going my way ... >but there he was right infront of me, absolutely silent, so I looked at him. >Dear folks that was the end of it ... this guy had his lower lip pulled over his >nose (!!!) and he was playing with his teeth ... needless to say I lost rather >quickly. Did I have the right to know that he might do this? Sure! >Did I ever ask anybody if they are going to pull a trick on me? No! Did I start >using my own tricks? Sure! > > >cheers to all. >Hristo So is your position with regard to playing chess "Let the buyer beware."? KarinsDad :)
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