Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 01:30:29 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 04:03:30, Ingo Althofer wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 03:02:39, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=739 > > >Thanks to Jorge for giving the link! > >I looked through the rule-work, and in general things look very sound. > >However, one rule is missing: >Remember the match between Kramnik and Fritz. >In the last two rounds draws were declared in very >early stages of the games. This was not good for the >spectators - and also not good for the experimental >outfall of the event. > >Some decades ago FIDE had a 30-moves rule, stating that >draws were not allowed before move 30. It did not work >too well in practice because human players found ways >to circumvene the rule. > I think it was much fewer than 30 moves, but there was something in a tournament a few years back (Linares?) where an early draw resulted in a penelty in the price money. But for the draw offer, I can't understand why this shouldn't be entered into the machine, or offered when the machine offer a draw. Why do they have to disable such a feature, that at least in a Winboard engine is designing feature that is given much thought. And the egtb rules are also something to think about, are we starting to ruin the game with this endgame tables. Odd Gunnar
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