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Subject: Re: The next WCCC ....

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:26:42 11/14/99

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On November 13, 1999 at 16:56:46, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On November 13, 1999 at 13:37:18, David Eppstein wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 1999 at 12:58:49, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>But the fact is that if you have to take into account 50 moves rule, than DTC>50
>>>is a draw. So you can stop the generator not after full stabilization, but after
>>>50 iterations.
>>
>>Not if you want to play intelligently against imperfect opponents...
>
>That will be not the first place in the modern chess programs where they assume
>perfect opponent's play.
>
>Eugene

I think that you can assume not perfect opponent's play against humans.
I will be surprised if a human can save a draw in a position when DTC=51.

it is possible to use DTC against computers and DTM(when DTC>50) against humans.

Uri



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