Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 06:48:15 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 09:44:29, Arnold Gove wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 09:33:58, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On February 27, 2006 at 08:52:52, Steve Lim wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I wonder if someone would be so kind to list out the few forfeits that programs >>>suffered during this tournament. >>> >>>I believe fruit and thinker suffered some. Anyone know how many games for each >>>and if there are others? >>> >>>many thanks, >>>Steve. >> >>[Event "ICC 50 3 u"] >>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>[Date "2006.02.25"] >>[Round "1"] >>[White "pmess"] >>[Black "Hossa"] >>[Result "0-1"] >>[TimeControl "3000+3"] >> >>0-1 (3 disconnection rule. Andrew offered to resign in light of the rules) >> >>[Event "ICC 50 3 u"] >>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>[Date "2006.02.25"] >>[Round "3"] >>[White "Zappa"] >>[Black "Fruit"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> >>0-1 (Weird bug where Fruit would not move.) >> >>[Event "ICC 50 3 u"] >>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>[Date "2006.02.25"] >>[Round "5"] >>[White "Diep"] >>[Black "ChessThinker"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> >>1-0 (Thinker dropped off the server. Did not come back for Round 5.) >> >>[Event "ICC 50 3 u"] >>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>[Date "2006.02.26"] >>[Round "6"] >>[White "Averno"] >>[Black "K9"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> >>1-0 (Tor was having some connection issues.) >> >>[Event "ICC 50 3 u"] >>[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >>[Date "2006.02.26"] >>[Round "7"] >>[White "Fruit"] >>[Black "Hiarcs"] >>[Result "0-1"] >> >>0-1 (Fruit having connection issues) >> >>I believe these are all of them. >> >>I applied the same rules to everyone through out the entire event and oddly >>enough it wasn't the operators/authors that gave me a hard time about the rules, >>it was mostly spectators that "had their say" in personal tells :) >> >>The participants acted like true sportsmen during the event. I can not state >>this enough. While they probably didn't like the losses, each one of them knew I >>was applying the rules as they were. >> >>Peter > >However, don't forget this: > >"Also big thanks to Enrico Carrisco and the Hiarcs team. We had some server >connection problems when playing against them, and at one point they would have >been within their rights to claim a forfeit win, which they didn't." (Vasik, >creator of Rybka.) > >AG This is true. In _both_ games where I had to forfeit Fruit, it was Enrico that spoke out against it. It would have sat there all day waiting for them to fix whatever issue they had. Anthony even wanted to wait to see if things could be fixed, but by then the round would not have been completed on time... Peter
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