Author: John Brownlee
Date: 05:45:00 05/02/05
Friends, Is there a convention in general use for engine tournaments concerning the use of resignation settings? Some engines have bugs mating lone kings, and when they have advantage they will usually win if lone king resigns, but if lone king refuses to resign the game will end in a draw. (Specifically List512 and SmarThink0.17a have similar but different bugs in mating lone kings.) So it comes to a question of tournament philosophy. Should the bug be "repaired" by the tournament master by applying common resignation settings (say -900 for 5 moves) so the engines with bugs get the win? or should tournament require all mates to be played to completion, so that the engines with bugs are made to pay the price by suffering a 50 moves draw against a lone king? What difference in rating points might be expected between the two settings? Thank you in advance for your interesting comments. Regards, John
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