Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:53:18 07/09/05
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On July 09, 2005 at 16:16:54, Mark Young wrote: >On July 09, 2005 at 15:57:27, William Sorin wrote: > >>I hate it when these damn programmers feel sorry for the human and give them the >>draw in a dead lost position for the human. I can count a handful of games where >>this has been done allegedly out of "respect" for the human. Is not chess >>suppose to be a game of truth? > >I have not seen the game. So I don't know if the programmer gave Ehlvest a mercy >draw. You correct that this has been done in the past. I for one do not agree >with giving draws to GM's, or anyone to appease them. I would tend to disagree with you, having been on the giving end of one of these "questionable" drawn games. Here's the position at the end of game 4 of the match between Chessmaster and GM Larry Christiansen (Chessmaster was playing Black): [D]6k1/3r4/6pp/3r1pP1/1R1p3P/3R1K2/5P2/8 b - - 0 45 The King evaluated this position as more than -1 in its favor, which was reason enough to continue. HOWEVER, if Larry accepted a draw we would win the match, 2.5-1.5. Larry had played exciting chess for the entire match, and was a fantastic opponent. He was also the reigning US Champion, which was more than enough reason for us to be a thankful and gracious opponent. But, if we had not offered the draw here, the game would have gone on for quite some time longer. There was no hope of Larry winning this game and achieving a drawn match result. It was either going to be us winning by one point or two points, and that difference was not important to us at all. So, in this position, we offered a draw, and of course Larry immediately accepted. I don't know of anybody who wasn't satisfied with the result. jm
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