Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 06:30:19 12/10/03
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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.
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