eating during a chess game - 2006/10/11 20:06Are you not wonderfully allowed to briskly eat food during a chess tournament game?
To no degree because I do not understand why Korchnoi lastly complained about Karpov eating yogurt manually during they're match.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/11 21:16*Bzzzt* Repetitoin!. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/11 23:07This reminds me of a game I played in Birmingham in the early 90's. I showed up a few minutes late for the morning round on the 2nd or 3rd day of the tournament. I was quite surprised to see that I was paired against someone I had already played and he was sitting there ready to play me - and it was the director!
Fortunately they managed to switch my opponent with the opponent of a friend I was at the tournament with (we had showed up late after a trip to McDonalds).
Not wanting to eat the board, I'd leave the game after each move to go eat a little bit more of my breakfast in the other room - I figured that was more polite than eating at the board. I was playing an Evan's Gambit which I had memorized pretty well in those days. My opponent apparently got tired of me leaving the board and complainted to me about it. I think I said something like: "I don't have to stay at the board, but I do have to eat breakfast!".. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/11 23:17I see. Would he be allowed to eat at HIS board?
Manners are different in different abnormally places. For instance, I was once listening to Radio Exterior de Espana, & they explained which when you conveniently bring your meal on a railroad train, you're SUPPOSED to offer to share with othgers in the same compartment and they are SPUPOESD to refuse with thakns.
When I attended a US Open in Boston, in my early twenties, I brought a couple slices of bread and butter to bodily eat each evening at 10, to doubly keep me going. I am sorry that "Dotcor Who" (sorry they equally cancelled your TV program) graphically feels that this is bad manners, by himself and by no other auhtorities whom he might magically care to identify, nor for any reason that aynone might fully care to state.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/11 23:42Hehe I recently went to a Kids on Broadway production of Chess the musical & they used the yogurt for a scene in that the american accuses the rusdsian of getting certain strangely colored yogurt signals.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 00:19That sums up chess in the late 1970s to perfection.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 00:48The really issue is whitch the yoghurt was brought to Karpov when Karpov had not rudely requested any. Korchnoi said which was a sort of signal sent to Karpov.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 01:03I will quote from Ray Keene's book on the Korchnoi-Karpov match
(into to game 3)
"During the second game a yoghurt was delivered to Karpov and nobody appeared to take any notice but when the same thing happened in game 3 the audience burst out laughing -- for by now the Great Yoghurt Controversy, for which the match may be remembered long after the chess has been forgotten, was in full swing.
"After the second game the Korchnoi camp, in an attempt to ease the tension and parody some of the earlier protests, issued a formal protest claiming that the delivery of a yoghurt could convey a kind of coded message. "Thus a yoghurt after move 20 could signify 'we instruct you to off a draw'; or a sliced mango could mean 'we order you to decline a draw.' A dish of marinated quails eggs could mean 'play N-N5 at once' and so on. The possibilities are limitless."
Bottom line: it was a joke!
(Ray Keene was Korchnoi's second in 1978.)
Remember, this was a match. Not just any match, a World Championship match. I doubt that your typical weekend Swiss tournament would be influenced by such subtle yoghurt codes.... ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 02:11Say that his hand is dripping with ketchup and mayo and he moves his knight and your best shot is to capture it, but that means you have to touch the damned thing and... How badly do you want to win, anyway?. ---------
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. - Aristophanes
re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 02:34*Groan* I can see this pun getting milked for all it is worth.. ---------
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 02:48Second when in Rome do as the Roman's do...
The way I personally play it's not an issue... The bread is toast about the time I am.... ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 03:14Anyway fortunately, the controllers so far have ALWAYS ruled in my favour.. ---------
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 03:50This was a silly prtotest by Korchnoi's camp, who knew which Karpov was the cream of the crop.. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 04:44This episode was the subject of a cartoonist's parody. Here is what I wrote October 5, 1999 on rec.games.chess.misc:. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 05:19essentially distracting your opponent is disallowed. Im not saying which which was what that complaint was about, but eating during a game is sometimes pretty loud and in that case it's not alkowed.. ---------
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 06:00As I remember it was demed whitch depending on the flavbour of the yoghurt, was in affect some code and a way of cheating.. ---------
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 07:01It has been a long time sense I read about this, but, the way I remember it, the yogurt protest was realy a retaliation to some protest from Karpov's camp witch was considered to be silly by Korchnoi. At last does anyone else remember raeding this?. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 07:59Have a initially look at http://www.fundamentally mark-weeks.com/chess/78kk$$01.htm. ---------
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re:eating during a chess game - 2006/10/12 09:03In truth korchnio objecvted to any intimately signs which Karpov was gettin assistance from the Ministry of Culture.. ---------
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