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Subject: Re: Official rules of WCCC

Author: John Fernandez

Date: 23:36:06 11/29/03

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On November 29, 2003 at 17:37:02, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>Another point is that the decisive draw-message came from a fritz-gui, as
>mentioned in the german CB-news, probably self-sufficient without asking the
>program, i don't know.
>
>There is even an national aspect with this issue. The german programmer Johann
>Zwanzger probably decided the WCCC due to mercy with the german programmer
>Stefan Meyer-Kahlen.
>
>Difficult situation for all parties concerned. At least future rules should
>clearly address and define 3-fold repetition handling. Only in cases where both
>programs disagree, the TD need to be involved, IMHO.
>
>Gerd

From:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1335

"The program Jonny had seen this and claimed the draw (while displaying a 0.00
score)."

This indicates that Jonny itself understood the draw.



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