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Subject: Re: Fritz GUI and Resign

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 02:11:59 07/21/01

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On July 21, 2001 at 02:28:51, Brian Kostick wrote:

>Snip from help file:
>Resign: "Late" means that Fritz will have to see three times in a row an
>evaluation of 6.5 pawn units or worse for itself before it throws in the towel.
>"Early" means it has to see minus 4.8 three times. "Never" means never.
>
>  I see that this setting Tools/Options/Game/Resign also affects engine matches
>and engine tournaments. Until recently I was not thinking about this. However,
>due to some recent talk of Fritz early resigns and engines running out of time,
>my attention was drawn to this setting.
>
>  I'm wondering if other operators aware of this setting and do you have some
>opinion on where you think this option should be set for engine matches and
>tournaments?  Regards, BK

In Engin-matches I have alway used the option "Early". In my opinion it will
happen once upon 200 games that the opponent will not be abel to win a game with
a positive evaluation of 4.8.
Kurt



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