Author: Mig
Date: 01:15:47 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 01:18:27, Ed Schröder wrote: >One thing for sure: in the GM-challenge I NEVER would allow a GM to lose >on time because of Internet problems. You just start to look for solutions >the game can be continued. Maybe the next day, if not possible the day after >and so on. Internet problems are nobody's fault and therefore nobody should >be a victim of that. > >IMO game-1 should be continued by all means and the second game should be >played thereafter. Anything else is highly unfair. The same applies in case >things would have happened the opposite. > >A VERY bad decission Mig! I wish we'd had you on the line last night! I'm sure Piket, Svidler, Kasparov, Adams, their arbiters, and the sponsor, arbiter, and opponent in Adams' Bermuda match would have been delighted to see a postponement till the next day, changing the days of the other games. Sorry, that's just not the way things are done, even if it had been possible, which it wasn't. (Seirawan is leaving Bermuda and their match arbiter leaves to another job even earlier.) I'm glad some people are actually reading my posts, I wish everyone were. IT WAS A KNOCKOUT EVENT. Someone has to advance, the other games are the next day. Unless you think we should have held the semi-final after the final, perhaps? No further play dates were available to Adams because of the schedule of another event in Bermuda. If it had happened to just about any other participant of course we would have rescheduled, that was our first suggestion. We discussed a dozen options. None were satisfactory. And the later it got, the less satisfactory the options got. Saludos, Mig mig@kasparovchess.com
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