Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:07:17 06/28/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 13:48:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 28, 1999 at 13:26:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Vincent: >>I do not doubt of what you heard from Amir, but I have an altoguether different >>interpretation of it. Probably he saw a great mistake commited by Ferret -it did >>it and that's reason Ferret did not win- and then made his statement, maybe not >>too happy as much it could be interpreted as you did. How could be otherwise? >>All here know Bruce and all here know that once the game started no one can do >>nothing to change the direction. In fact ferret was winning almost all the time. >> So, when you see an almost won game becoming a draw you exclaim that the game >>"was given for free", that is very common in all kind of games because even if >>your interest is not engaged in the result -Junior could not be the winner if >>ferret would win- you feel certain amount of anger looking how something is >>ruined. Amir is probably a perfectionist and perfectionist does not tolerate >>even alien mistakes. Any other interpretation of his words is too daring and >>even insulting. >Sometimes overhearing part of a conversation can cause a big change in meaning >-- especially if one or two key words were not perceived correctly. I think >that to suggest the contest was thrown is silly. But I don't really know if Mr. >Ban did say that. Anyway, perhaps he did not really mean it that way after all. > >Q1: "Was the contest thrown?" >I really must believe that any who went to the competition were trying to win. >If you wrote a chess game and were invited, and even had a chance to win the >championship, would you throw the contest? If not, then why should someone else >do it? The programs play. Ferret has a better position. Bruce can't press a single button without the camera registrating it, or any of the people arround seeing him do that. >Q2: "Did Mr. Ban really mean those things in exactly that way?" >I think he seems to be a nice person from the posts that I have seen in this >forum. It seems unlikely to me that he meant those things the way they were >perceived. Only he can tell us if those things were meant in the way they were >taken or if perhaps some key expression of explanation was not heard by Vincent. I'm talking about what happens at the world championship here, not how people are the rest of their life, or how they act at the CCC or how they write in magazines or how they are towards their children. I'm talking about a world championship. I'm talking about what happened after some minutes after i started my supper. I'm talking about my dissappointment that no one cared shit about the world title. It's not only Ban i'm talking about. I'm talking about dozens of people. Around 50 were eating over there. As i already feared: we are gonna talk further and further about amir, that's not what i like to. I like to talk about WHO LEFT THE FINALS, AND IS HERE WRITING SOMETHING ABOUT IT HERE, OR HAS AN OPINION ABOUT THINGS HE DIDN'T SEE ALTHOUGH JUST STAYING FOR 2 HOURS WOULD HAVE SHOWED HIM, AND THE MEAT IN THE RESTAURANT WAS 2 HOURS LATER JUST AS GOOD AND JUST AS FREE? >Q3: "Did Vincent really overhear those words?" >I am sure that he probably did hear something like that. But I am not at all >sure if they were meant in the way they were taken, or if all the relevant >passages were relayed clearly enough to be understood properly. THERE IS 0% CHANCE HERE THAT I MISUNDERSTOOD AMIR. >Sometimes, body language or expressions from someone from another country are >not read correctly. Sometimes I deadpan or give sarcasm to my friends that is >meant as a joke and they would know it. But someone who listened in might get >very weird impression. BOTH AMIR AND SHAY VERY SLOW AND ACCURATE FORMULATE WHAT THEY SAY IN ENGLISH. NOT A SINGLE CHANCE ONE MISTUNDERSTANDS IT, AND IF I MISUNDERSTANDSOMETHING THEN I'M THE FIRST ONE TO ASK THIS. Sorry for the capslocks, it remained on. If i would now claim i turned it on by accident, do you believe it? Greetings, Vincent
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