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Subject: Re: Shredder wins in Graz after controversy

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:23:34 12/09/03

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On December 09, 2003 at 10:12:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 09, 2003 at 10:02:43, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>It had a draw score and played the drawing moves, so its intention was clear.
>>The engine wanted the draw and the operator didn't allow it, that's the way I
>>see it.
>
>If the bare engine would have been playing, what would have happened
>is exactly what happened: the position would have been repeated until
>either one deviated or it was a draw after all. In the actual game,
>someone deviated.

No

In that case the programmer could care for telling the engine to announce draws.

He probably did not care about it because he knew that the interface can do the
job.
>
>The operator reasoned: neither engine understands this is (claimable
>as) a draw, so why should it be a draw?

Based on Amir Ban's post the operator did not claim it and the claim that it was
the interface and not the engine was done only later by CCC posters.

Uri



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