Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Another example :)

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 06:30:19 12/10/03

Go up one level in this thread


On December 10, 2003 at 05:20:05, Amir Ban wrote:

>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
>
>Blitz is a different kind of competition, only half serious, giving the operator
>a lot of latitude, and placing a lot on his speed and accuracy. An operator's
>mistake can lose a game, which does not apply in regular competition.
>
>Amir

The case for fully automated tournaments makes a lot of sense in blitz.

Bob D.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.