Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 07:20:21 09/09/99
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On September 09, 1999 at 07:27:15, Sune Larsson wrote: >Well, I have this try with Crafty1615 and a friend of mine - ELO 2300. >Yes 40 moves in 2 hours. 400Mhz pentium, books and everything, but.. >First 4 games no problems - hard combat and 2-2. But afterwards, we had agreed >10 games... Yeah a little money, prestige and stuff, you know... >My computer hangs up, crashes and believe it or not - 6 times in a row! >How things can happen... >Problems arises - my friend want to call it a win for him 8-2, due to the >argument "if you don't play - you lose" > >Need help - what to do ? And my rating for Crafty vs ELO 2300, should it >be calculated from this 2-8? But really they didn't play the last 6 games - >just 20-30 moves... Need perspective. Maybe from Australia... > >Sune :) Well it depends on your friend. You could play these games again. But since money is involved I suppose that he has some small right to call the win. But if I was playing a friend I would not take them as wins. So I just wonder how good a friend he is ? I just think he is only interested in the money. Otherwise to count six games cause of a computer crash as wins is pretty weak. If it happened one time or was something on the scale of what Ed and Rebel have been doing, then I would say count it as a loss. But there is no pride in winning over a program that continually stuffs up. One or maybe two stuff ups take the loss. But three or more, just reply the games. I would feel like a greedy scum bag if I took the money cause a computer crashed six times. Tell him to go jump, either play the 6 crashed games again, or the bet is off. That is unless of course the crashes happened when crafty was beaten anyway.
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