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Subject: Re: Assigning a non-zero score to a draw by repetition

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:06:23 11/15/04

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On November 15, 2004 at 15:29:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 15, 2004 at 14:56:10, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On November 15, 2004 at 14:43:59, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>
>>>On November 15, 2004 at 12:13:40, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 15, 2004 at 11:46:13, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I was wondering if it is correct to assign a zero score to a position that is a
>>>>>draw by 3 fold repetition.
>>>>
>>>>That's the way i do it. Otherwise, how else could any engine decide, based on
>>>>the evaluation score, whether to go for repetition or to avoid repetition?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>What I find strange is why crafty doesn't do it.
>>>Comments Dr. Robert Hyatt?
>>>
>>>Alvaro
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>What I mean is that if for example white is ahead in material and black is
>>>>>fighting desperately for a draw, black will try to reach that drawn position as
>>>>>quick as possible while white will try to postpone that position as much as it
>>>>>can.
>>>>>It's a sort of distance to mate but in this case it is a distance to draw by
>>>>>repetition.
>>>>>Does this make any sense to you?
>>>>>I would appreciate your comments.
>>>>>
>>>>>Brest regards,
>>>>>Alvaro Cardoso
>>
>>Crafty does it (0.01 -> black forces draw in position good for white, -0.01
>>white forces draw in position good for black).  I really should implement this
>>in Zappa.
>>
>>anthony
>
>I believe that was Uri's idea, if I recall...

Yes

My idea was about tablebases positions.
I guess that you generalized it to other draws.

Uri



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