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Subject: Re: Draw due to lack of blockade detection...

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:41:14 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 10:37:56, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 10:34:43, Omid David wrote:
>
>>Just today we had a discussion regarding the importance of blockade draw
>>detections http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?255950
>>
>>Had Fritz implemented such a scheme, it wouldn't have stepped into the drawing
>>variation.
>>
>>My engine instantly announced draw based on its blocked-draw detection
>>heuristic. While Fritz never realized the draw...
>>
>>Omid.
>
>so much to the thesis: "This never happens in real games..."

Maybe if you add "in comp-comp games" that would even be true. In human-comp
games it's obviously one of the anti-comp strategies, at least if you play for a
draw.

Sargon



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