On 18 Oct 2003 16:10:31 GMT, (CCamp81318) wrote:

There are no outside influences on a game of chess so the winner is ALWAYS the
player that played the best during the game in question.

What about those games, and there are more than a few, where the loser
resigned in a won position?

What about those games where one player comprehensively outplays
another and then loses with a terrible blunder? If one plays 49 good
moves and then one disastrously bad move is it fair to say that he was
outplayed? What if there was a distraction that caused the blunder?

The point being, it just isn't that simple.