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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