Author: Howard Exner
Date: 11:18:22 10/03/99
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On October 03, 1999 at 12:55:16, James Robertson wrote: >On October 03, 1999 at 11:52:43, Howard Exner wrote: > >>On October 03, 1999 at 09:17:38, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >> >>>The game against Hoffmann should _of course_ be counted. Say what happens if I >>>play a game with a cold in a tourniament ? >> >> >>This is not quite the analogy that comes to mind. A computer that shorts out, or >>has a power failer is more like a person having a total stroke or blackout >>during the game - or maybe having someone bonk you over the head causing an >>unconscious state. >> >>Or course if you are concerned about the game score then of course even >>someone dying at the chess table will not matter. But in the GM challenge >>the point is seeing how a computer program plays vs a human. Otherwise we may >>find ourselves with a rash of posts, "I beat Crafty in 10 moves!" When asked >>by the enquiring minds here on CCC, "How did you do that?", you could >>simply reply, "The power went out in my house, it refused to move so it >>lost on time! Yipee my rating just shot up!" > >This Crafty analogy is bad because it is not a formal match. Rebel - Hoffman was >very formal. But it fits the protocol that some want to associate with this game. If it's ok to count a game were the machine crashed ten times how far a stretch is it to count one that crashed 15 times - 20 timesa or a total power failure? Here's another standard in chess protocol. Someone not showing up for a game is promptly given a loss. Or backing out of a match. The next Rebel GM opponent is Baburin. If he now cancels should Rebel be awarded the win and should it be used to calculate its rating? After all that's how Spassky beat Fischer in game two back in 1972. How rigidly do we want to measure Rebel vs the GM. > >About dying at the chess table, I recall a true story about a GM who had a >totally lost game against another GM, but refused to resign, saying that you >never know what might happen. The game was adjourned, and guess what: the >winning GM died of a heart attack that night, failed to show up in the morning >to finish the game, and forfeited. I recall some story like that also. It's funny in a morbid kind of way. > >James
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