Author: Michael Neish
Date: 09:09:42 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 11:02:20, Alvaro Polo wrote: >On February 19, 2000 at 10:13:10, KarinsDad wrote: >If I were in Adams shoes, I would probably have done the same thing. So what? As >Shakespeare said (I quote from memory, sorry) "If we were treated as we deserved >to be, who could avoid being whipped?". I mean, I am not a model role and I >don't claim to be one. I maintain what I said. The sportman (and a competition >chessplayer is one) who wants to win a match without playing it is a jerk. In >Adams' case this is specially clear because, due to *his* *own* connection >problems, the match was delayed two hours. Note the subtle point: he was not >forfeited. When Junior runs into the same problems, he claims forfeit. To be >fair to the truth I don't believe he is the only jerk in the whole story. If you put it that way, of course it sounds pretty damning for Adams, but I think there is more to consider than just the fact that he wasn't forfeited after a two-hour delay at his end, etc. I think the ones on this forum who are most qualified to give their opinions on what happened on that day are the ones who were directly involved. The rest of us are just going on a load of incomplete information tinged with personal opinions, and so we have no right to go up in arms and start calling people "jerks" and "cowards", and claiming certain people are "afraid" and what have you. We need to know the complete picture, and we simply haven't got it. And it doesn't solve the problem anyway. The last thing computer Chess needs is an acrimonious atmosphere between players and programmers. Isn't it better just to cool it, find out as much as possible about what happened, and then work on finding ways to prevent it from happening again? The deed has been done, and that's that. Let's all look forward to the next time. Name calling -- now that really is a clever solution. Mike.
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