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Subject: Re: Another example :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:19:15 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 04:19:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>Deep Sjeng is playing Junior in the blitz tournament, and in a
>pretty bad position. I am nervous and in trying to be quickly,
>I play the wrong move. Normally you can can claim the win
>instantly. Instead, you consider for a moment, correct the move
>entered into Junior and play on.
>
>Clearly not acceptable as you've just turned a sure win for
>Junior into a potential loss on time.
>
>Shame on you, such a thing is clearly unacceptable :)
>
>--
>GCP


Who set up such a rule?  The rules I have always used for computer chess
simply say that backing up, correcting the error, and playing on from there
is the _right_ decision.  Why would a speed chess tournament suddenly make
operator errors fatal???

If it is true, it is about the lousiest rule I have heard of...

• Re: Another example :) Gian-Carlo Pascutto 06:23:38 12/10/03
  • Re: Another example :) Robert Hyatt 07:14:18 12/10/03
    • Re: Another example :) Amir Ban 14:41:49 12/10/03
      • Re: Another example :) Matthew Hull 22:29:28 12/10/03
        • Re: Another example :) Robert Hyatt 10:43:08 12/11/03
      • Re: Another example :) Robert Hyatt 15:20:48 12/10/03
        • Re: Another example :) Amir Ban 15:40:02 12/10/03
          • Re: Another example :) Robert Hyatt 15:56:58 12/10/03
            • Re: Another example :) Amir Ban 03:29:59 12/11/03
              • Re: Another example :) Robert Hyatt 06:44:32 12/11/03
        • (more) Robert Hyatt 15:26:04 12/10/03
  • Re: Another example :) Bob Durrett 06:31:37 12/10/03
    • Re: Another example :) Gian-Carlo Pascutto 06:34:49 12/10/03
      • Re: Another example :) Uri Blass 06:41:49 12/10/03

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