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Subject: Re: When to resign

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 10:25:03 09/01/99

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On September 01, 1999 at 12:41:41, Alan Grotier wrote:

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>At what negative evaluation figure is it reasonable to assume that a chess
>program can nolonger defend the position and will lose the game?
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>Alan
Well in a game between humans, if a player is down by a whole rook it's safe to
resign when there's no compensation for the material deficit. Translating this
to a computer evaluation, assuming 1 point equals a Pawn, then 5 points is
enough.



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