Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 12:49:26 11/29/03
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On November 29, 2003 at 15:22:45, Peter Skinner wrote: >I am listening on Playchess that Shredder vs Johnny came to a position of 3 fold >repetition. As Johnny's operator made the move, _then_ asked for the draw, play >continued and Johnny lost. > >What should have been done was once the position came to be, the operator should >have gotten the Tournament Director, shown that the next move would indeed be a >repetition draw, request the draw, make the move, then the director would make >the draw claim official. Since this was not done, the game continued, and Johnny >lost, giving Shredder a win and a tie for firt place with Fritz. > >First List, now a non-accepted draw claim.. what is next... Shredder has outplayed Jonny and had a clear win (Perhaps a Mate in X position). But due to a bug obviously, although it evaluated a big advantage for "him", it played wrong and gave the chance to Jonny to have a triple fold repetition. For me this is not important and it can be already been fixed by Shredder's programmer. What is important is that it played better. And if rules say that the game can continue then there is any problem at all. If Jonny's operator didn't knew the rules then whose fault is?
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