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Subject: Re: Junior forfeits to Crafty!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:30:10 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 13:59:26, jonathon smith wrote:

>On February 05, 2000 at 13:53:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 05, 2000 at 13:32:36, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On February 05, 2000 at 13:25:08, jonathon smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>ChrisW told me that it is allowed to walk out of a tournament if one finds it
>>>>badly organised, biased, unfair. Nobody has to waste their time and expenses
>>>>playing after they have been mistreated.
>>>>
>>>>If this messes it up for other participants then the tournament organisers
>>>>should look to themselves for allowing such a piece of mal-organisation to take
>>>>place.
>>>
>>>I don't think you know what you are talking about.  The tournament has been run
>>>fine so far.  The pairings have been acceptable and nothing weird had happened.
>>>The only weird stuff that happened here happened as a result of this current
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>
>>Obviously Chris just wants to get his .02 in.
>
>ChrisW told me he saw a pattern.
>
>>The "problem" was something well
>>outside of the tournament organization.  This "+censor" issue has been public
>>knowledge for 3 months.  It would have been easy for Amir to say "Hey, I am
>>paired against Crafty, but apparently Bob has forgotten that he censored me,
>>can someone talk to him?"  IE this wasn't a sudden newsflash at 10:30 this
>>morning.  It has been in place for 90 days or more.
>
>Why should Mr Ban have to ask? Dr Hyatt made the censorship. Dr Hyatt was aware
>he made the censorship. The censorship was in Dr Hyatt's hands.


Doctor Hyatt "forgot".  But he had fixed the problem prior to the 11am start
time for the round.

I suppose I can talk in this 3rd party nonsense if you want to...



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