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Subject: DJ vs Kasparov and the draw decision

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 05:40:33 02/10/03


I'd like to stress this sentence:

"After this move Boris, in his gentle way, became more insistent: 28. f4 f6 and
the black king comes to e6. If white now plays a5, said Boris, then I as black
play b5 and I want to win! We both could see on the analysis machine that Junior
wanted to play a5 in every possible variation. I had to agree that Boris was
making more sense than Deep Junior."

I don't understand from the postings who did the second draw offer and I don't
think it brakes any rule.

Still I think that offerting or accepting a draw just beacuse you see the
program is going to play a weak move or a blunder is not what I would like to
see, especially with a GM helping the team in such a decision.

On the other side what should the operator do if he sees a negatve score when he
gets a draw offer? Shoul he tell the opponent "no thanks, I don't take the draw
offer because you are better?".
Even from a scientific viewpoint the fear of the human player is a part of the
"experiment".

regards
Franz







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