Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:30:44 12/18/03
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On December 18, 2003 at 08:15:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 18, 2003 at 07:50:13, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>Yeah, and now you're starting the whole thing up again. > >I blame Rolf :) > >>Would Shredder have asked to play on? Absolutely not, no way! > >Shredder did not ask to play on either in this case. But of course, >happily accepted when it was offered to do so. > >>Would the TD have said Shredder couldn't claim the draw because the interface >>did it? Of course not, this is the way Shredder is designed! >> >>So what remains is the naked fact: >>one guy wants to give the win to his opponent, should the TD allow that? >> >>>The fact that the Jonny engine did not know about 3 fold repetitions, and >>>the draw was claimed by the interface, is IMHO sufficient reason to play on. >> >>If Jonny can play in that interface then Jonny can use everything the interface >>offers: the egtbs, an opening book and draw claims. >> >>In any case one shouldn't suddenly go about making up rules in the middle of >the tournament: "Oh BTW you can't claim a draw because you are using an >>interface that does it for you...." >>This should have been said _before_ the tournament. > >The rules are actually made up during the players meeting (I dislike _THAT_ >certainly a lot). > >You are also saying something completely different than I am. I am saying >that I consider the reasoning defensible. I did not say that every engine >HAS to claim the draw by itself, even when the interface was designed to do >that. > >Can you understand the difference? > >Jonny is a winboard engine btw :) I guess that shredder ran as a UCI engine. It is clear that in these circumstances it also claimed the draw so the only logical decision is a draw even if you accept that the interface is only part of shredder and not part of jonny. Uri
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