Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:08:34 10/21/03
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On October 21, 2003 at 15:55:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >That's all irrelevant to this discussion. I was pointing out that the human >should _not_ be able to either offer or accept a draw on behalf of the program. >The program should be able to handle this itself. "draw" should be a legal move >the machine has to accept. It can either make a decision or just print "draw >declined" but it ought to accept the offer text and do whatever the author >thinks is best. The human should be a bystander. Not an active participant. In automated events I would agree with you, but you know how dumb programs can be, e.g. not seeing an obvious draw until the 50 move limit approaches. When playing manually I can imagine both humans would feel pretty silly going through that ordeal. Don't you think it's embarrassing enough just watching it happen automated? :-). That's not to say we shouldn't make programs smarter in understanding obvious draws, I just doubt they will be as good as us any time soon. -S.
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