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Subject: Re: Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen!

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 02:07:57 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 01:24:40, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 30, 2003 at 22:14:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 30, 2003 at 13:54:10, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On November 30, 2003 at 12:59:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 30, 2003 at 12:11:45, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>you are not fair as you did not read what has been written about what happened.
>>>>>
>>>>>What happened was allowed by the agreed (by all partecipants) rules.
>>>>
>>>>You are simply wrong.
>>>
>>>I was not there but what I wrote/being told makes you wrong, not me.
>>
>>Nope.  The Johnny operator was told to claim a draw.  He chose not to as
>>he thought Shredder should win.  That is _not_ an option.  There is no
>>discussion about that point. The operator is _passive_.  His refusing to
>>claim the draw was _not_ passive.  He admitted it.
>
>
>Just to point out what exactly happened.
>
>Quote.
>"In its decision the ICGA confirms that the Jonny program had announced its move
>and stated on the screen “info” and “dreifache Stellungswiederholung”
>(“information” and “threefold repetition of position”). But, said Jaap van den
>Herik, this is different from "announcing its intention of making the move and
>displaying wording to the effect that it was claiming a draw," as the FIDE rules
>would requrie. The "Info" display only meant that the program was supplying
>status information, not claiming a draw."

That seems to be a strange justification for me to interprete a modal dialog
box, which requires user interaction as a pure status message.
So only the text "Info: 3-fold-repetition" inside this dialog box is the issue?
Instead of
 ____________________________________________________________
|                        "Draw Claim!"                       |
|  I intend to play the move x to force a 3-fold repetition  |
| Please stop external clock, call the TD and don't play     |
|             the move on the external board!                |
|                                                            |
|                            <Ok>                            |
|____________________________________________________________|

I thought the main argument was about Jonny's unability to detect the draw by
itself and to void any game decisive claims from the GUI, which should only act
as a dumb input/output device for entering/displaying moves/board.

Gerd



>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1335
>
>Take a look at that page as it shows the exact info screen the operator was
>supplied with.
>
>I agree he then went to ask if he could play on, which he wanted to do. But at
>this point he made the move prior to going to the TD.
>
>Sarah.



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