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Subject: Re: Human adjudication in Chessbase engine tournaments

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:25:17 08/17/00

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On August 16, 2000 at 22:10:38, Martin Grabriel wrote:

>what do you think of the following:
>
>(a) To be fair in running engine tournaments under Chessbase GUI, once the
>tournament is completed, the games should be inspected. Where one program lost
>on time in a drawish position, the user should re-adjudicate the game as a draw
>so that fairness is ensured since the problem with the time-out could be an
>interface probelm. Is this correct?
>
>(b) wbNimzo2000b (white) against Junior6a (black) in a G/15 game. Junior6a lost
>on time. I looked at the position and think that white should win even if the
>game continues. Is this correct?

No way.  Take black's pawn off and it's still a draw.  In fact, without having
seen the game, I bet black tried to get rid of its pawn, in order to force a
more clear draw.

bruce

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