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Subject: Re: A Mercy draw given to Ehlvest?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 14:47:33 07/09/05

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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?

[D]8/4nk1p/p1r3p1/1p1p4/3K2P1/1P2N2P/P7/4R3 w - - 0 40

During the game, I gave the continuation 40.Nxd5 Nxd5 41.Kxd5 Rc2 42.a4! =. The
42.a4! move was misevaluated by fruit 2.1 which I was using to analyze, but I
nevertheless understood the position to be drawn. Later Anthony Cozzie gave
Zappa's analysis with the correct evaluation of 0.0 that included the 42.a4!
move. Very impressive for an engine.

It might be argued that the draw agreement was a little early, but surely
Ehlvest understood the Rook ending at least as well as I did. A matter of
technique as they say. I don't claim to have the greatest technique in the
world, but I do understand--that--position.



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