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Subject: Re: If you left it up to DJ, there would be almost no reason to ever draw !

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 03:31:57 02/15/03

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On February 15, 2003 at 06:04:33, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On February 15, 2003 at 03:41:56, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=799
>>
>>Thank god we had the possibility to consult with Boris and with DJ on the Backup
>>machine when considering a draw.
>>
>>I don't think you want to see the computer making its own draw decisions. You'd
>>have another four or five hours of game, the human falls asleep... The computer
>>wins, the humans get angry. I don't think that's what you want to see. Chess is
>>a very pragmatic game played over the board, you cannot really isolate a
>>position or two for an example. And you have parameters and ethics around these
>>matches. Garry tires and the computer doesn't. And you have human objectivity
>>that needs to be inserted. We don't want to win and be accused of torturing the
>>human in an equal position, but that wasn't the case and it was a great match.
>
>To accept the draw offer from Kasparov would have been ok.  To have a GM say,
>'move x is bad', then look at the computer output and see that it wants to play
>that move, and offer a draw based on that information is just lame.

I agree with you but it's a 2 sided coin.  Kasparov did not have to accept the
draw offer by the  Junior team.



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