26-08-2013, 09:54 AM
Hi Walter
Agreed Steve is entitled to say whatever he wants. But the negative impact of such a statement, which read simply like sour grapes, leaves me in no doubt that the chess community was not served by it. He would have been far better advised to have followed Andy's example and take some time to reflect.
If there were real and serious mistakes made then sure raise them at council but raising them here is not the way to have them remedied: nothing like that is ever resolved in anyway when debated in a medium like this.
The big problem we have is that many people only accept decisions/results that go their way. If you sign up to a process then I think you are obliged to accept the results unless one has solid evidence of serious malpractice.
Agreed Steve is entitled to say whatever he wants. But the negative impact of such a statement, which read simply like sour grapes, leaves me in no doubt that the chess community was not served by it. He would have been far better advised to have followed Andy's example and take some time to reflect.
If there were real and serious mistakes made then sure raise them at council but raising them here is not the way to have them remedied: nothing like that is ever resolved in anyway when debated in a medium like this.
The big problem we have is that many people only accept decisions/results that go their way. If you sign up to a process then I think you are obliged to accept the results unless one has solid evidence of serious malpractice.