Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:07:49 10/05/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 11:24:48, Stephen Ham wrote: >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. You are stuck in hell. How long has it been going on? How long would it take to play it all the way out? If it hasn't been going on long, I would play it out for a while. You might wish to consider finding a very strong player and having them adjudicate it. bruce > >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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