Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 11:25:18 01/20/02
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On January 20, 2002 at 12:21:25, Russell Reagan wrote: >I saw in CCT4 that some programs have been agreeing to draws and I'm curious how >most people handle this. I was thinking that if I was offered a draw I would add >a "move" to my legal move list with an evaluation of 0.0 and if that turned out >to be the best move, then I would "make" that "move" (basically accepting the >draw). I began to think about this, and if a strong program like Fritz, Junior, >ChessTiger, etc. used a method like this, then an oponent could play an opening >where the evaluation for that strong program would momentarily go below 0.0 as >white or slightly above 0.0 as black, at which point you could offer a draw and >it would accept, and in an even like CCT4 or at the WC's you could score an easy >draw against a program that you're almost sure would beat your program. >Obviously this method of offering and accepting draws isn't going to work, so >how do most people handle this? > >Russell One word: Content Factor (Actually that's two, but who's counting...) /David
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