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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 12:24:26 01/22/03

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On January 22, 2003 at 13:23:57, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On January 22, 2003 at 11:43:22, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>Sounds reasonable to me.
>>Imagine Junior shuffling round for 49 moves in tables trying to make Kaspy make
>>a mistake, pretty lame too.
>
>That would be pretty lame of whoever is operating Junior IMO. In that case they
>should see that there is no progress for many moves, that pieces are just being
>shuffled back and forth, and they should offer a draw, or accept the draw when
>Kasparov offers. There is no need for such a rule. It only allows Kasparov to
>think, "I am in a really bad position here...maybe if I trade off two more
>pieces for each side Junior will hit a 6-man ending and find some long forced
>draw..."

That would be quite a risk for him, it could just as easily find a win,
alpha-beta does try to do that you know :)

-S.



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