Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

What else do you want ? Total surrender ? Public stoning ? Kissing of Count Drkulec's feet ? At least leave the guy a little back door to escape the bullies.

I appreciate organizers and tournament directors like Hal Bond who give me a chance to play the game that I love. Get over it. Stop being such a nattering nabob of negativity.

[Zeljko Kitich]

Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

Mr Zator wrote: "Having looked at the game now, I am completely convinced that it was totally on the level." To me it means clearly he admits his claim was unfounded. (But claiming in itself is always legitimate, if you really think it is founded.)

What else do you want ? Total surrender ? Public stoning ? Kissing of Count Drkulec's feet ? At least leave the guy a little back door to escape the bullies.

how about he stop justifying himself by not continuing to say the players involved can't disprove his accusations as if somehow they are supposed to have to do that

when Mr Zator the bully stops shoving & pushing everyone around for his 'lost' money then maybe things can settle down

[Steve Douglas]

Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

Mr Zator wrote: "Having looked at the game now, I am completely convinced that it was totally on the level." To me it means clearly he admits his claim was unfounded. (But claiming in itself is always legitimate, if you really think it is founded.)

What else do you want ? Total surrender ? Public stoning ? Kissing of Count Drkulec's feet ? At least leave the guy a little back door to escape the bullies.

Hi Jean:

Umm, if his post looks like an apology to you, well, I suggest you get your eyeglass prescription checked. EZ has posted several times and has not shown any sign of regret that he dragged one or two other player's names through the mud. He continues to splutter about the financial side of this as if it is somehow relevant. He impugned the character of one of the players by noting that player's (probable) ethnic origin. I'm not piling on or being a bully in replying to this latest post of his.

Apparently I am not even being your attack-dog ;)

Steve

[Jean Hébert]

Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

How dare you continue to insinuate that Mr. MacKinnon did anything wrong?? You are continuing to grumble that he drew instead of winning, because that affected *you*. He is not responsible to you. You are somehow convinced that somewhere in this game he was clearly winning and then unfathomably screwed up, as if that is somehow a rarity in chess. The game looks to be totally legitimate and you have yet to explain how the TD giving your complaint the slightest attention would have affected *anything*.

Mr Zator wrote: "Having looked at the game now, I am completely convinced that it was totally on the level." To me it means clearly he admits his claim was unfounded. (But claiming in itself is always legitimate, if you really think it is founded.)

What else do you want ? Total surrender ? Public stoning ? Kissing of Count Drkulec's feet ? At least leave the guy a little back door to escape the bullies.

[Steve Douglas]

Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

*** Screed deleted ***

How dare you continue to insinuate that Mr. MacKinnon did anything wrong?? You are continuing to grumble that he drew instead of winning, because that affected *you*. He is not responsible to you. You are somehow convinced that somewhere in this game he was clearly winning and then unfathomably screwed up, as if that is somehow a rarity in chess. The game looks to be totally legitimate and you have yet to explain how the TD giving your complaint the slightest attention would have affected *anything*.

Steve

[Ed Zator]

Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

Secondly, are you inferring that I deliberately failed to convert this ending?

No. In fact I made no such accusation or inference. But I did point out, you can't disprove such an accusation on the basis of financial motive, since the potential financial gain is not quantifiable.

Having looked at the game now, I am completely convinced that it was
totally on the level. But I was an opportunity denied to me, and to others in my group, by the arbiter when he chose not to pursue my concerns further.

At worst you failed to convert to a won Q+P vs Q ending earlier on, a mistake even a GM might make. After that, your chances of winning probably became practically impossible, unless you'd studied the specific techniques for Q vs R+P.

Your loss of the half point cost you financially, but it had a much bigger impact on the section two below yours! That's life. Freakish kinds of draws do occur, sometimes even between players with greatly different ratings.

Your opponent played resourcefully in your game, and well throughout tournament, tying for first with Derick Twesigye (who posted another amazing performance). My congratulations to both of them as well.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

(after one of the leading bully smartly compared Ed Zator to Homer Simpson eating donuts") ?

LOL! You are such a drama queen.

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Endgame

Jonathan: I have a hypothetical question regarding the value of tablebases in draw claims.

Let's say a master(player a) had the rook and pawn and a much lower rated(player b) had the queen and hardly any time on the clock and wanted to draw. I don't know much about claiming draws in the endgame, but lets say player b claimed a draw and went to the arbiter. And he had memorized tablebase evaluations beforehand and his position is "winnable" . So can he claim a draw to the arbiter based on his argument that it is dead winning for him according to tablebases? Would the arbiter go check tablebases or how would he proceed?

The answers of Ben and of Egis are both correct. Rule 10.2 has always been a minefield, but has become less of an impediment as more and more events have an increment from cradle to grave. It is possible, but not likely, that an arbiter will rule that trying to win on time with R+P vs. Q is a normal method.

In any case, a R+P vs. Q tablebase would not enter into the discussion in your example.

Where the value of increment over sudden death would really show its superiority is the opposite case, where R+P is trying to draw against Q. With an increment, you just play it out and count to 50. With sudden death, I suspect most arbiters would require the defending player to demonstrate the fortress. So if he had 5 seconds SD, he'd probably lose, but if he had 1 minute 55 seconds and was adept at the intricacies, he'd probably draw. The moral? "Same move faster was better". {Geza Fuster}

[Jean Hébert]

Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

Mr. Zator decided to conjure up a peremptory accusation, which he posted on Chesstalk to be considered by the community. I believe my post contained some very relevant arguments, undiscovered by previous posts.

Undiscovered arguments ? Is it "I'm disgusted" or "Amen, brother" (after one of the leading bully smartly compared Ed Zator to Homer Simpson eating donuts") ? Give me (not Me, me! :)) a break. Who are you trying to convince here ? Yourself or Me ? With you I suspect it's always Me, Me, Me...

P.S. By the way, add a few letters to your surname it is very ... unsurname like. How about Kevin "the dean of" Mean ? :)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Endgame

Let's say a master(player a) had the rook and pawn and a much lower rated(player b) had the queen and hardly any time on the clock and wanted to draw. I don't know much about claiming draws in the endgame, but lets say player b claimed a draw and went to the arbiter. And he had memorized tablebase evaluations beforehand and his position is "winnable" . So can he claim a draw to the arbiter based on his argument that it is dead winning for him according to tablebases? Would the arbiter go check tablebases or how would he proceed?

The claimant should (but not must) first offer a draw to get an information that the opponent plays for a win (it might be that he wants to promote a pawn :) The well-mannered opponent will not offer a draw in a lost/worse position but he will accept the offer.

IMHO, the arbiter is needed to solve a dispute.

Nevertheless the player may go and ask an arbiter to fix a draw.

"
10.2 If the player, having the move, has less than two minutes left on his clock, he may claim a draw before his flag falls. He shall summon the arbiter and may stop the clocks. (See Article 6.12.b)

a.
If the arbiter agrees the opponent is making no effort to win the game by normal means, or that it is not possible to win by normal means, then he shall declare the game drawn. Otherwise he shall postpone his decision or reject the claim.

b.
If the arbiter postpones his decision, the opponent may be awarded two extra minutes and the game shall continue, if possible in the presence of an arbiter. The arbiter shall declare the final result later in the game or as soon as possible after a flag has fallen. He shall declare the game drawn if he agrees that the final position cannot be won by normal means, or that the opponent was not making sufficient attempts to win by normal means."

http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.ht...4&view=article

[Ben Daswani]

Re: Endgame

Jonathan: I have a hypothetical question regarding the value of tablebases in draw claims.

Let's say a master(player a) had the rook and pawn and a much lower rated(player b) had the queen and hardly any time on the clock and wanted to draw. I don't know much about claiming draws in the endgame, but lets say player b claimed a draw and went to the arbiter. And he had memorized tablebase evaluations beforehand and his position is "winnable" . So can he claim a draw to the arbiter based on his argument that it is dead winning for him according to tablebases? Would the arbiter go check tablebases or how would he proceed?

Unless they were in a sudden death time control, the claim would be denied. In a sudden death time control, it would be accepted, I would think.

DEVILS SIGNED KOVALCHUK#$&*(#&*()$&*()#$

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Re : Re: Endgame

I don't think that I have ever belittle the redemptive value of a sincere apology. Personally I love to apologize when I do make a mistake but for obvious reasons I very rarely get the chance to practice. :)

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
when you're perfect in every way.
I can't wait to look in the mirror
cause I get better loking each day.
To know me is to love me

I must be a hell of a man.
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
but I'm doing the best that I can.

I used to have a girlfriend
but she just couldn't compete
with all of these love starved women
who keep clamoring at my feet.
Well I prob'ly could find me another
but I guess they're all in awe of me.
Who cares, I never get lonesome
cause I treasure my own company.

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
when you're perfect in every way,
I can't wait to look in the mirror
cause I get better looking each day
To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man.
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
but I'm doing the best that I can.

I guess you could say I'm a loner,
a cowboy outlaw tough and proud.
I could have lots of friends if I want to
but then I wouldn't stand out from the crowd.
Some folks say that I'm egotistical.
Hell, I don't even know what that means.
I guess it has something to do with the way that I
fill out my skin tight blue jeans.

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
when you're perfect in every way,
I can't wait to look in the mirror
cause I get better looking each day
To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man.
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
but I'm doing the best that I can.

We're doing the best that we can

[Zeljko Kitich]

Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

I can see that you are not playing idiot... Start using a dictionary. At least you may learn the meaning of a few words.

again with the English, you really have nothing to say if you can only criticize my use of the English language

I hope you at least know what slander and libel are and what aiding and abetting someone in these efforts means

oh and please do tell me the same thing happened in Toronto 25 years ago

where is your sense of humor??????

here since you like quotes
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
William James quotes

it takes a real idiot not to recognize when someone is trying to bully his way into more money and to defend his doing so

[Jean Hébert]

Re : Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Excellent Canadian Open, Spoiled

too good at the game for your own good? who else could that describe :):):)

the bully is the one who is attempting inappropriate financial gain, in this case Ed Zator wants more money that belongs to others, so he is attempting to bully and take money from those players by making libelous and slanderous accusations against them of game fixing, not to mention accusations against someone because of the country he comes from

the rest (who have nothing to gain monetarily) I think are following your point 3 above and letting Ed Zator know that he can't bully people to get their money by making unfounded accusations, they are yelling at the bully just as you suggest - if you get confused just follow the money - the one looking to take someone else's money is usually the bully in this case Ed Zator wants at least $100 according to his first post

I can see that you are not playing idiot... Start using a dictionary. At least you may learn the meaning of a few words.

[Jean Hébert]

Re : Re: Endgame

While Jean and I both dislike bullying, we'll have to remain in disagreement on the redemptive value of an apology.

I don't think that I have ever belittle the redemptive value of a sincere apology. Personally I love to apologize when I do make a mistake but for obvious reasons I very rarely get the chance to practice. :)