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Subject: Re: The operator of Fritz accepted the offered draw, but Fritz...

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 02:49:35 07/20/01

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On July 19, 2001 at 20:25:12, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On July 19, 2001 at 17:46:40, John Dahlem wrote:
>
>>I agree. It's a computer-human match, and there should be as little human
>>interference as possible.  Since the computer can by itself accept or decline
>>draw offers I see no reason for the operator to intervene.
>
>Agreed, let the program speak 4 itself
>Wayne

There's a lot to that point of view - so I'm not totally disagreeing, but look
at a Goliath-Junior7 games in one of my earlier posts:

http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?179953
With both a second on the clock they decided draw. But we knew it all along.

I don't know how this particular F-H game went, but you don't have to be a GM to
see that some positions are dead draw. Fritz won't give up. It won't resign, it
won't draw. But it has nothing to do with chess anymore, like the above example
of the junior-goliath game.

It's the same as some playing online refusing to draw because he has one second
more on his clock and tries to tackle you on time.
Frizt doesn't have such tricks, but the results might be the same.

J.



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