Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 09:43:13 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. > >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 Without reading what others have posted, I would like to see any ideas you might like to share! If it was put in book form, I would be interested in buying it! Perhaps, you may consider, putting your analysis on cd, an electronic book? If you wanted help with this I have a burner! Chris Taylor
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