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Subject: Re: Paderborn: why Rybka Beta played and not Rybka Preview 2 ?

Author: Pedro Gomes

Date: 01:38:45 12/31/05

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On December 31, 2005 at 01:46:37, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On December 30, 2005 at 20:29:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>[...]
>>A more interesting question is why the opponents resigned against rybka and did
>>not continue until mate because it is known that rybka has a bug that may cause
>>it problems to win won positions because it does not care about distance to
>>mate.
>[...]
>>Uri
>
>      Hi Uri
>      I like something with the name "fairplay".
>      Best regards
>      Kurt


The objective of the game of chess is to mate an opponent“s king, so:
why do many people think it is not "fairplay" to mate our opponent, or to see
him mating our king ?

Just Pedro



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