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Subject: Re: Kasparov - Deep Junior: and tablebases draw rule

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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