Author: blass uri
Date: 07:36:07 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 04:44:31, Amir Ban wrote: >On July 26, 1998 at 23:14:45, blass uri wrote: > > >>In this match fritz5 won 12:8 but when I looked at the games I saw that >>in 1 of the games Junior lost in time at move 156 in a draw position. >>fritz has only king and bishop when Junior had king bishop and a pawn. > >This game should be judged to be a draw, not a loss. The Fritz shell uses a >wrong interpretation of the rules. > >The correct rule is that when one side is out of time, it loses the game only if >there is some possible continuation to a position where it is on move and cannot >avoid mate-in-one. Otherwise it's drawn. > >This is not the same thing as the possibility of help-mate. By the rule, it is >always a loss when the opponent has a pawn, or at least a rook. In the situation >described of KBP out of time against KB it is always a draw. In this case by the rules fritz5 won because the bishops were not controling the same squares. It is possible for Junior to do a rook out of its pawn and be in a position like Junior:king a1 ,bishop b1, Rook c1 Fritz: king a3 bishop d4 and it is the move of Junior and it must play Rc3 and fritz mates by Bxc3 Uri > >The intent of the rule is not to award a win when it is technically impossible. > >Amir
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