Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 12:57:48 08/25/03
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On August 25, 2003 at 14:23:02, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >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). >> > >I agree that the operators should not so readily accept draw offers, but there >are also some dead drawn positions which are far from the tablebases. yea, this will happen too As an >operator I would not like to play that out, either against another computer or >against a grandmaster. Also, we must admit that the operator has to face >difficult decisions, and it is easy an unfair to criticize them. > >>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. > >Good idea! But against really strong grandmasters that will lose more often than >win. yeap, a slight downfall in this thinking, it could do well in making the match more exciting but it could lose more or less for the machine. >José.
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