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Subject: Re: Fischer played against Petrosian when he was ill....

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:29:13 02/18/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 19:56:55, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On February 17, 2000 at 02:43:11, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2000 at 23:19:43, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>
>>>Dear CCC Members,
>>>
>>>What we have here is a "failyooooor to communicate".  I do sympathize with GM
>>>Michael Adams because I had food poisoning in the tropics myself.  I also feel
>>>that the delays were too much for the man.  Deep Junior was doing over a million
>>>nps at times and it takes extreme vigilance to avoid tactical traps at these
>>>levels.  I believe that in the interest of having further grandmaster
>>>participation in computer events or vice-versa  it was wise to forfeit the match
>>>to Adams.
>>
>>I do not agree.
>>I think that the right decision was to play the match later when adams is not
>>ill.
>>
>>I think that the fair decision is that if one player is ill then the game should
>>be postponed.
>>
>>The human should also have a right to postpone the game to another day if the
>>game does not start on time because of a communication problem because the delay
>>does not change the level of the computer but may change the level of the human
>>who is tired later.
>>
>>Uri
>Fischer in his way to become the next World Champion, had to play Petrosian in
>the final Candidates Match in 1971, and he had a cold. There was no decision to
>postpone the match.
>So, when humans play against each other, and one is sick,
>the one who is ill can only have choices, continue playing or forfeiting the
>match.  In this case, why should be any different for Adams, he should be the
>one forfeiting not DJ? I guess, this is called reversed logic.
>Laurence

I think that humans who are sick should have the right to pospone games against
humans.

I did not say that the fact that fisher had to play when he had a cold is fair.

Uri



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