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Subject: Re: Why do they keep playing?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 11:36:03 08/24/00

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On August 24, 2000 at 14:19:07, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>This may not pertain to the current position, but these games are played out
>until there isn't much doubt about what is going to happen.  If there is any
>life at all in the game it should be continued, unless it's the programs
>themselves that are asking to draw.

Precisely what I meant! :))

The game changed dramatically and now looks like this:

[D]8/1p1k2p1/pP1p1p1p/4pP1P/1Pr2nP1/RR3K2/8/8 w - - 0 71

Next time I'll try to wait and shut up in the meantime. I won't succeed...

Enrique

>When you resign, you are supposed to get the tournament director to approve it.
>This is in order to prevent operators from saddling their programs with their
>own imperfect judgements.
>
>Is Jaap the TD?  If so, he was pretty hard-core about this a few years ago, but
>now is willing to give the programs a little more credit.
>
>bruce



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