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[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

Hey,

I'm posting here because due to the ICC changes I'm unable to directly follow the games or communicate to the TD or anyone else for that matter. All my info comes from relaying through Suj.

Below is what happened from my POV (taking into account the above):

During the Sjeng - Rybka game, Rybka crashed several times. After the last reconnect, it then appeared hung but eventually moved after a very long think. The TD informed us that Rybka had crashed 3 times and asked us if we could confirm this and if we wanted to claim the win. The Rybka operator (Lukas) was reportedly claiming they had only disconnected once. Suj was not experienced enough with ICC and asked me what to do. I informed them I only got 2 games emailed from ICC, which should indicate they disconnected only twice, but that I expect the rules to be followed if they disconnected 3 times. I asked if I could check my logfiles, but this requires disconnecting Sjeng, and we were informed this would count as a disconnection pro Rybka, so we did not do this. After a while, the TD informed us that according to the ICC admins Rybka disconnected twice, and so we payed no further attention to this matter.

However, I see now that the Rybka guys posted the following on their forum:
http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=18194