Author: John Merlino
Date: 22:59:26 09/17/01
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On September 17, 2001 at 12:49:12, Jorge wrote: >Hi John, > >Someone must have mentioned this before, but I have the latest patch for >CM8000(1.04 I believe), but CM never seems to Resign, or even ask for a Draw in >obviously drawish positions. Every time Fritz or Hiarcs or other progs ask for >a Draw to CM8000, The King replies "No draw. Play on" even when it is pretty >much a draw anyway. It has long been a design decision to never have The King offer a draw or resign. However, a CM personality will ACCEPT a draw if both of two conditions are met: 1) Enough moves have been played in the game (not sure, but I think it is 40 half-moves). 2) The personality's eval score of the position is less than or equal to than its "Contempt for Draw" value. So, if the CM personality (which has a CFD value of 0) scores the current position at 0.01 in its favor, then it will not accept the draw. jm
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