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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 11:48:30 01/22/03

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On January 22, 2003 at 13:05:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>>Anyway you never know, nothing wrong with making a rule about it. Get it down on
>>paper so they don't break any oral gentleman agreements.
>
>This doesn't need to be a "rule".  If I were playing and reached a known drawn
>position,
>and it became obvious that my opponent knew it was drawn as well, I'd offer a
>draw.  Crafty
>will do this automatically, in fact, after the draw score is seen for a few
>moves and the opponent
>doesn't make a mistake.
>
>But it doesn't take a _rule_ to make that happen.  It is called "courtesy".
>

I imagine Garry is drawing on his experiences with DB, not feeling like he would
trust computer folkes ;)

-S.



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