Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:36:36 07/30/00
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On July 30, 2000 at 15:44:12, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>Do I understand this right? The player is in a lost position and CT is not able
>to win?
>
>In that case it is no won position but a drawn position.
>
>Better program CT in a way it will be able to win a won position.
Thanks for pointing this out, it will certainly help me. :)
What happens generally is that no side has a winning position. The position is
just hopelessly blocked and one player loses on time. Unfortunately this player
is Tiger, because it tries at each move to compute seriously in order to find
something to do. But there is nothing to do, and thinking about it is just a
waste of time. The human player knows it and just moves a piece back and forth
until the program runs out of time...
By the standard rules of chess it should be a draw. The human player just takes
advantage of a flaw in the rules used on chess servers.
Christophe
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