Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 05:02:00 05/08/00
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On May 07, 2000 at 16:33:05, Frederic Friedel wrote: >From the press report: > >"Developer and operator Frans Morsch offered a draw on move 49 which Piket >happily accepted. Morsch was satisfied with the final result. "Fritz didn't >play any crazy moves, I'm very pleased" he commented afterwards." > >Interesting that Frans offered the draw, and that he didn't play on in view of 6 >min. vs 62 min. What do you think? I believe that not the human operator but the program should decide on whether to accept a draw or not. After all, offering draws and accepting them is part of the game. Another thing to be considered is that both Fritz and Piket play way better chess than Mr. Morsch. So what if the position would have been won but he didn't realize it ( and Fritz hadn't shown it because it was too far away ) ? Most Computer programs have a so called contemptfactor meaning that for example if they are down -0.15 but the contemptfactor is set to -0.20 they will not give a check by repetition if possible. Against a strong human like Piket the contemptfactor could be positive. Now when the human offers a draw the operator would simply click on the "draw" button in the interface and in case 0 > eval - contempt the computer will accept, else decline. -- Georg
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