Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:58:14 07/09/05
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On July 09, 2005 at 16:53:18, John Merlino wrote: >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. Correction: The King was evaluating this position as slightly LESS than -1 in its favor (about -0.95, IIRC). jm
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