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Subject: Re: In computer games 3-fold repetition should be AUTOMATICALLY draw!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 02:38:07 11/30/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 04:46:13, Jouni Uski wrote:

>It means, that engine wants draw. No human intervention needed / allowed.
>
>Jouni

Your one-liner in more detail:

Go through the rules of any serious computer chess event, the emphasis is fully
on the fact to eliminate all human intervention, there are 2 computer brains
fighting the game of chess and any human interference in that fight should be
avoided by all means. This is the spirit of comp-comp.

Therefore I don't understand and it is against the spirit of the rules to
suddenly introduce the human factor as an argument.

If there was a technical draw on the board then the game is a draw, game
finished.

If there is a technical checkmate on the board the game is over too, no one
would accept further play because a program has a bug and operators who mutually
decide to continue anyway.

My best,

Ed



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