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Subject: Resigning seems like a useful feature.

Author: John Coffey

Date: 11:55:15 10/09/98

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On October 09, 1998 at 11:44:18, blass uri wrote:

>There are fortress positions that no computer(including crafty) can understand
>If crafty is going to one of these positions not because of understanding that
>it is a draw but because it sees that every possible move is losing more it can
>do a mistake and resign in a draw position.
>
>Uri


I was always annoyed by people on the net who would not resign until I was
one move away from checkmating them.   Sometimes fritz5 does this too.  If a
person or program is going to play the game to almost the end then they might as
well go all the way.

John Coffey



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