Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 12:56:05 08/25/03
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On August 25, 2003 at 10:18:47, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On August 25, 2003 at 08:31:16, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>On August 25, 2003 at 02:10:35, Sietel Monic wrote: >> >>>I hate waiting for these events. I want to see them so much and chessbase talks >>>about them sooo much, I just want to see the match tommorro!!lol >> >> >>I take it with a grain of salt. If it happens L watch it if I can. When it does >>it's not really the truth of the matter anyway. We know it's just publicity >>advancement for CB and the lining of money in the GM's pockets. They don't have >>the gonaids to push the game. They'll take a draw at the drop of a hat. >> >>I say give the GM's NOTHING to play them. This will give their lazy rearends an >>incentive to win as winning is the only way they can get money which is what is >>motivating them from what we see when basically their taking all the money right >>before they've even pushed a pawn! >> >>Play 10 games >> >>money disbursement is as follows: >> >>a win ------------------- $100,000 >>a draw ------------------ $25,000 >>a loss ------------------ $50,000 >> >> >>This works out nicely as to accept lazy, sluggish draws inspires poverty whereas >>if you deliberately lose to make more you get you ego trampled plus not making >>as much as the win. The only way to play is "for the human race" as all these >>hyprocries have been spouting is to go for the gold which is what they should be >>doing regardless but we know that has not been the case from all these "Man vs. >>Machine" matches. > >Actually, there is a better way to prevent lazy, sluggish draws. Just have the >computer operator refuse all draws offers until the position is completely dead, >(i.e., it's a tablebase draw). that's a good idea as well. > >Or have Fritz itself be the one who accepts or declines an offer of a draw and >set the draw contempt factor high so that it will play out most any position to >an absolute 0.00 eval. yeap
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