i can completely understand that someone bans harvey williamson from a tournament.
if i would take a few people onto an island somewhere for 3 years,
who you would take with you
cock de gorter ?
harvey williamson ?
i would take cock.
i would certainly not invite harvey williamson onto this island in the sun.
first because he is a chess base sysop.- that alone disqualifies him.-
i can imagine a situation where he "talks" with cock and the situation
escalates.
i am sure it would develop in a similar way if he would "talk" with me.
in fact harvey is the person i left hiarcs forum and ended my friendship with mark uniacke.
there are some people i don't have to tolerate in my hobby-time.
its enough that you have to bear with those kind of people at work.
in my hobby time i want to be with people like mark uniacke, cock de gorter or
others. but certainly not with people who behave like harvey.
i could name a few more people from CCC, but i am sure you know what i mean
)
i remember when 1999 hiarcs participated in paderborn, and had to play versus ferret.
ferret made the first move on board. the hiarcs operator was not there.
and the clock was running against hiarcs.
i saw this and ran from chess system tal computer to the other desk and operated hiarcs,
although it was maybe not 100% "allowed" / legal from the tournament rules.
but it was my point of view that the engine of a friend of me should not lose because
of timeout, only because the operator of hiarcs was fucking his girl friend in the hotel.
ferret programmer bruce moreland complained about this and went angry towards
me.
i do completely understand bruce.
he was upset because i have not the right to operate hiarcs AND Cstal in this situation.
when cock de gorter saw this, he instantly sat on the chair of the hiarcs computer and operated
hiarcs until later the operator came.
thats how i know cock de gorter. he is a person i would trust 100%.
i would lend him my car. and this means something for me.
to me harvey williamson stands for censorship and
despotism.