Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 08:24:48 10/05/00
Dear Computer Chess experts, I know that many of you are following my 4-game Human versus Computer correspondence chess match versus Fritz 6a and Nimzo 7.32, carried at: http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell Since I am ignorant of computer chess, I need your advice on how to deal with the following issue. Fritz 6a-Ham has reached a clearly drawn endgame. However, becuase of the material disparity, Fritz 6a belives it is winning by 2.69 pawns! We have installed the 5-piece endgame table-bases, but it is clear that neither side will liquidate from our present 6-piece ending into a 5-piece ending, which would prove the draw to Fritz 6a. The problem is that I don't want to play out a drawn endgame "ad infinitum" just because Fritz 6a thinks it is winning. If we instead stop the game and have someone adjudicate it as a draw, then weak chess players are going to scream that we "fixed" the result to favor the human (me) when the machine showed it was winning and had a material advantage. Does anyone see a reasonable solution? Your input is appreciated. As a side note, I've been asked by several interested parties to put together an even more in-depth commentary than I already have (is such a thing possible?) so that it could be sold as a book. I've thus planned to do a "post-mortem" analysis togther with the chess-engines where the chess engines will check my analysis and I theirs, just to keep the analysis as correct as possible. Other than this, what would you readers like to see in a revised presentation? Thank you in advance. All the best, Stephen Ham
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