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Subject: Re: Draw offers between chess programs

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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