When Could Winning Involve a Conflict of Interest?

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Would it have been unsportsmanlike (or even cheating?) for David Norwood
to offer or agree to a draw in a position where he believed that he was winning?


JMHO -

Unsportsmanlike, possibly

Cheating? I don't think so. Gaining an unfair advantage over one's opponent is cheating. A minor sabotaging of one's own position just to get a date with someone (while not the wisest course of action) is not cheating.

That's funny.
I remember a Norwood tactics book that had a green cover and it opened my eyes to real chess.
I think their was two Norwood brothers so I don't know who wrote the book but it was a great book.

As for your post...
I don't go easy on any girl/woman in any game/sport.
This attitude has gotten me farther than the usual..."lose to the girl" BS 🙄
Why? Well I'm broke and poor and I have nothing.
Most women look for men with money regardless of looks and since I have no money I crush them at every game/sport and me being good looking makes it all the more fun.

Ya I'm sure some women don't care about money blah blah blah ya sure 🙄
In the above example...if I was Norwood...
I would have massacred her and hoped for the best.
Women don't want push overs or fake dudes.

Also...I thought Judit was the best looking as far as the Polgar sisters...

I just looked at some pictures and Judit is by far the best looking in a natural sense.

Susan Polgar is hot in a naughty mom sense but Sofia is not even close to either of the other two sisters.

@Duchess64

LoL remember when Gata Kamsky's father threatened Nigel Short with a death threat?
LoL that was hilarious back in the day 😆

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Should the other woman not have a right to believe that was unfair?


This is a legitimate question, but unlike some here, I can't claim to have the answer. This is a question best directed to the tournament organizers and directors than to me. As I said. It was just my opinion.

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I couldn't agree more (with rejecting that discourse).

The set of activities that could be frivolously construed to have sexual connotations is virtually limitless.

If the game of chess had happened to evolve such that the pieces representing the king and queen were instead depicted as not having gender, we might have been spared much of the uninformed rhetoric about how the game represents sexual concepts.

Hi, RTD,

"I remember a Norwood tactics book...."

In an interview published in the 8/1996 New in Chess, David Norwood declared, "I’ve written more books than I have read on chess."

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/havoc.html

@greenpawn34 said
Hi, RTD,

"I remember a Norwood tactics book...."

In an interview published in the 8/1996 New in Chess, David Norwood declared, "I’ve written more books than I have read on chess."

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/havoc.html

I disagree with some of that article.
I think the 1980's chess books were the best especially in regards to openings.
Those books would convince you that after reading the book you would have an unbeatable opening weapon and they would cover almost every line in an understandable way.
Todays chess books are just cluttered with computer evaluation in my opinion.