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"RSHaas" wrote:
.... All of have experienced the easy finding of a good line of play
while observing someone else's game...a line that the two players often
miss.

I once had an adjournament (in the old days before sudden death) in which,
once the game resumed, I did not even recognize the position! Talk about a
fresh perspective. It was the correct position, though.

Bill Smythe

This reminds me of an incident a few years ago. A team I
was captaining was 4-3 up in a match with one marginally
favourable game outstanding. My player had great
difficulty contacting his opponent who did not appear
susceptible to either answering phone calls, or
responding to messages. However, this did not stop the
opposing team captain, who admitted his player was
impossible to contact, from suggesting we were
trying to avoid playing on.

After much effort I finally got a date and a venue fixed
for the resumption; the price I had to pay was to help
with adjournment analysis and, worse, travel to the
venue, something I would not ordinarily have done. My
player told me his sealed move, a necessity one would
have thought given he was the sealing player. Imagine my
surprise when the envelope was opened and something
entirely different was played on the board, something
that totally vitiated all our adjournment analysis.


Regards,

Simon.