Did he really do that? I guess I must clear the cache, because all I see is 5.5 points for Romi which is what she got..I have no problems about him reversing the result, I am a first timer, so I made some newbie mistakes. I guess it gave us some valuable input, when you deduce all the possible, you get the culprit. In this case, all my hypothesis were wrong, Romi is the sole cause of her time problems. Romi wont lose on time, it just uses around 90 seconds per move for the first 15 moves after the book, by the time 16th moves rolls around, its already down by about 12 minutes. Since everyone was watching me today, I couldnt use the hexedited Rybka at the last minute.
The luck against Petir actually made it hard for Romi today. Romi's first opponet was CTD (THE GIVER), and we did have an even position with rooks and pawns placed properly and both kings at the right places. By that time Romi only had about 2 minutes, and one three ply move everything was done. Next game was against Yace I believe, and even though yace played the dubious 1. h3 line, Romi couldnt take advantage of it. The game against Amateur also showed that using up too much time early in the game can cost you..The only opponent that I would say that I received that I could beat anyday was Roce. Again, Romi still had time problems (running as a pure wb engine with no adapters), but Roce as most of us know wasnt Romi's range..The final game was against ZCT, Zach told me that he was going to smoke me, I did expect Romi to win in this game because Romi is much stronger than ZCT on a single core. However, having hardware about 4 times slower, and ZCT being able to finally use 2 cores reduced my chances a lot. Also, Romi doesnt have much clue about endgame. Towards the end, it was Romi (NN) vs ZCT (2pawns, and a bishop), Romi's knights were just dancing around instead of trying to capture those pawns..and Romi didnt realize until it was too late that she was losing. Oh well, may be next time.
Later
Tony
It's fine if you penalize me, I guess I should have kept my big mouth shut..I told people at ch 64 that I was going to reconnect during the prophet game, anyone got the logs? May be I should be allowed to participate without kibitz, diep didnt kibitz in some of its games, thinker only kibitzed few times in the game against me.
Nice game though, very entertaining.