Author: Chessfun
Date: 14:15:53 07/22/01
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On July 21, 2001 at 05:11:59, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 In autoplay I use never as it seems that some programs have problems continuing the match when the opponent resigns. Sarah.
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