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

Author: Omid David

Date: 08:32:51 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 11:21:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 10:41:14, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>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
>
>I do not think that they never happen in comp-comp games.
>
>I also think that they can happen more in comp-comp games if one program has the
>knolwedge.

Assume one engine has the knowledge, while its opponent doesn't. Then it's quite
possible that it intentionally enters such a blockade-draw and thus saves a lost
game.

Omid.


>
>Uri



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