lcmldm@... wrote:

in regard to Luis's comments on Delhi's EOG:

 

      Yes, I was eliminated in the first round.  Yes,

I was eliminated by Luis and Andrew.  That was

more or less public knowledge if anyone wanted

to check.

      If Luis is saying that I shouldn't have been allowed

to be a replacement he should take it up with David.

Sometimes you take the replacements you can get.

I waited to see if someone else would come forward.

I wasn't champing at the bit to get back into the

tournament.

I didn't say that. I just said that it was quite unlucky for me, specially after some personal tensions seem to have arisen from you towards me - something I never saw in Andrew for instance (who also suffered my success) - not even in Joel, who was my favorite Bahmanid victim in the first half of that game. And I think that has conditioned the balance of forces in this game. While Delhi should be a natural ally of Bahmana, Lynn's Delhi was obviously not interested in such cooperation (though he made as if he did).

       Luis seems to think that I had to know that

he, or Andrew I still haven't checked, won our

first round game.

I did. Andrew was close though. :-)

  I never bothered to look because

frankly I didn't care.  I blocked his email because

I felt like it.

You're so nice and so diplomatic... ;-)

  Luis is not a correspondent that

one enjoys having, an opinion that I am not

alone in holding.  Feel free to block my email

if you please.

I won't unless you start spamming me. It's not my style.

  I won't mind a bit.  You'll

notice that neither Andrew nor Luis can

claim that I wouldn't talk to them or negotiate

with them as I did so extensively.  I treated

them the same way I would treat any other

player who I knew from experience to be

difficult to work with.

       As for this being a sick game, I think

Luis is "the pot calling the kettle black" here.

Luis' problems in this game were of his

own making because he simply has to

always have his own way because, after

all, he is both always right, and entitled to

have the game go the way he plans.

My guess is that without Andrew's support,

(wasn't that the deal you offered me in the first

round, Luis, go for first and second in round

one and then carry that cooperation over into

round two?),

Well, I did offer you a side by side campaign in round 1 and I was deadly serious then. I did consider possible to get two places in round two but I didn't mean to carry on the alliance from game to game. This is for one simple reason: each game is unique and I play games as a whole not as pieces of something bigger (even in a tournament). And also because even in first round there was some chance of getting two places for the final, the final only admitted one winner.

he would have been the first

eliminated.

Well, I always considered much more important Arne's (Rajputana's) alliance. He was a much more solid ally than Andrew and Andrew's intervention was basically oportunistic caused by the fact that Lynn had to leave his rear undefended to Delhi.

Best,
Luis.

       I think that allowing a wildcard spot was a mistake

and I would have liked to have had the chance to have

had the final be declared a draw with the tournament

winner decided on some point system.  Still it was

a well run tournament and the best man won so I

suggest we now have a few words from the winner.

 

Lynn