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Subject: Re: A Mercy draw given to Ehlvest?

Author: Arturo Ochoa

Date: 19:27:42 07/09/05

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On July 09, 2005 at 17:47:33, Ricardo Gibert 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?
>
>[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.

This the kind of post that I enjoy a lot.

Thank you.

Kind regards, Arturo.



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