Author: Kunnar Klauks
Date: 02:54:29 02/11/03
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> >This is simply a poor policy. > >The computer has to play the moves. Why should it not also have to handle >draw requests and make the decision by itself on accepting or declining? And >why should it not also make the decision to offer a draw when it thinks it >is appropriate. > >I think the very concept of allowing anything _other_ than the program to >offer or accept draws is ridiculous in the extreme... > >IE if humans can offer/accept draws, why can't they choose the openings? >Suggest alternatives it it wants to play a grossly ugly move? Etc. > >In USCF competition, the "operator" is like a blind chess player's >helper. This "helper" makes _no_ game-related decisions, he just makes >moves for the blind player and tells the blind player about the clock and >when the opponent makes a move. > >That is what the operator should do in these "exhibition matches" as well. I completely agree. When computer plays then computer plays and computer should offer/accept draws, resign etc. I find this classifies even as cheating if grandmaster decides when to draw. This is not man vs. machine, but man vs. machine + GMs. Kunnar
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