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Subject: Re: Weird Draw Claim?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:04:38 07/11/03

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On July 11, 2003 at 17:14:56, Luis Smith wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>     Last night I played a few games between Fritz 8 and Shredder 7.04.  Fritz
>was well on its way to mate Shredder, it promoted the pawn, but then after
>playing weird moves in a mate position it accepted a draw!  I am not sure if it
>offered the draw or if Shredder did.
>
>Question
>
>Should I:
>
>a)Change the draw claim to a win for Fritz
>b)Replay the game
>c)Throw the game out?
>
>Thanks for the input
>Luis Smith

Based on the game shredder was going to win the game and the game was drawn by
repetition.

I do not think that tablebases can be quilty here because the position was KQRP
vs K and there was no need to promote the pawn when KQQR vs K are missing.

Uri





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