Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:03:46 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 11:43:22, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 11:06:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 22, 2003 at 05:12:52, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >> >>>An important rule went unnoticed here. >>> >>>The program can use the tablebase, but the game is declared draw when the >>>computer hits a tblbase draw! >>> >>>Not a trivial statement: imagine Kasparov gets into a position where he is in >>>disadvatage, he can try to enter in an endgame he knows to be drawn even not >>>knowing how to play it. >>> >>>A sort of compensation for the fact Deep Junior has the TB's. >>> >>>regards >>>Franz >> >> >>That is yet another example of the stupidest rule anyone could come up with. > >Sounds reasonable to me. >Imagine Junior shuffling round for 49 moves in tables trying to make Kaspy make >a mistake, pretty lame too. > >-S. I don't believe they would do that. I know I would not. But I do believe they have the right to ask Kasparov to show that he knows how to draw. Some are not easy. KQP vs KQ is one example...
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