There have been some questions on that, so I will repeat here, what I have written in Ed Trice's GothicChess forum:

Nobody has expected, that GothicChess Online would provide a perfect system environment. Well, there already have been some experiences with interrupts. And even when now the extrem bug related to e.p.-captures was new in its extension, so all have been aware of the necessity, to occasionally reconstruct chess games from their beginning. Insofar Ed Trice as organizer is not to be burden with that.

But it could not be, that attempts to reconstruct broken chess games (as far as possible) will end in personal attacks. I am neither able to guarantee an exact reestablishment of the timings, nor to exclude mistakes during the reentering of a chess game, especially if the other side is not disposing on own game notations. Such mistakes could be quickly corrected by starting another attempt to reconstruct the chess game. But it will make no sense to decline a new effort of reconstruction but instead to vituperate ones opponent or to pressurize him by any other mean.

Now there different allegations are to be read. Things I imagined to be cleared for long actually are excavated again. Too bad. Also one is trying to constrain me by a threatening banishment to tolerate such effrontery. One time I bite the bullet, however a second time is really too much in this event. SMIRF has been prepared for long for this tournament, today this program is stable and effective. Thus a surrender of any further partcipation is bitter. But regrettably I cannot dwell on such an attempted extortion. I rather terminate my engagement for GothicChess.

In the case that I really am the bad boy, as which I have been pictured in different postings, all should be sincerely happy on my retirement from this tournament. Whether now all SMIRF results would be canceled or the outstanding chess games would be judged as been lost is left to the organizer Ed Trice. If you favor the opinions of given teammates SMIRF anyway would not have had any chance for any more scored point. It does also not matter here, how I would valuate this.

I had considered to propose the suggestion to have another person continue playing SMIRF instead of me. But after the last e-mails I received I do not see any tangible sense even in that variant.

Reinhard Scharnagl.