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Subject: Re: Draw offers between chess programs

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 11:38:36 01/20/02

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On January 20, 2002 at 14:25:18, David Rasmussen wrote:

>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...)

Don't you mean "Contempt factor"?

The other one is determined by wins and losses, I think :-).

Regards,
Mogens



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