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Subject: Re: Draw due to lack of blockade detection...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:21:26 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 10:41:14, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 10:37:56, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2002 at 10:34:43, Omid David wrote:
>>
>>>Just today we had a discussion regarding the importance of blockade draw
>>>detections http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?255950
>>>
>>>Had Fritz implemented such a scheme, it wouldn't have stepped into the drawing
>>>variation.
>>>
>>>My engine instantly announced draw based on its blocked-draw detection
>>>heuristic. While Fritz never realized the draw...
>>>
>>>Omid.
>>
>>so much to the thesis: "This never happens in real games..."
>
>Maybe if you add "in comp-comp games" that would even be true. In human-comp
>games it's obviously one of the anti-comp strategies, at least if you play for a
>draw.
>
>Sargon

I do not think that they never happen in comp-comp games.

I also think that they can happen more in comp-comp games if one program has the
knolwedge.

Uri



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