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Subject: Re: Assumptions of fallibility/infallibility

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 07:43:14 04/03/00

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On April 03, 2000 at 09:37:55, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>
>Yes, a very interesting problem. Don't know what to do in such a situation.
>The 100:1 time odds game between Crafty and Rebel comes to mind.
>Crafty avoided lines that Rebel had no idea of - and lost. May be Crafty could
>avoid the loss by playing non optimal lines.
>Sometimes it's better to know less :-)
>Kind regards
>Bernhard

If I remember correctly, that has been implemented in Rebel. I think it was part
of the anti-grandmaster switch. If it would see a checkmate in say 16 moves and
had to give a rook to avoid that, it would keep on to the rook and hope the
other didn't see the checkmate.

The idea was that loosing a rook or getting mated was about the same thing (
playing a grandmaster )

Tony



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