Author: Chessfun
Date: 19:40:07 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 13:00:59, James T. Walker wrote:
>Regarding adjudication, I believe human intervention should be kept to a
>minimum at all times. If a program loses on time or runs into time trouble that
>is the fault of the program/programmer or it could be that the other program is
>playing such good moves that it needed to use the extra time just to stay in the
>game. That's why we use clocks to begin with. You can use extra time when you
>need to but in the end you have to pay the piper. The only time I adjudicate
>games is when it's an obvious draw and neither side has winning chances or when
>one side is completely busted and even I could win the game from that position.
>I only play blitz games on ICC and I lose about 40% of my games due to time. I
>continue to play hopeing to improve my speed but I understand that time is an
>integral part of the game that must be accounted for.
>That's my take on the subject.
>Jim Walker
James,
Thanks for your opinion.
I generally agree with all what you say, with programs
let them play till they finish. I will post another example
later that I thought was for sure a draw and was tempted to
adjudicate but let go and low and behold there was a winner.
Thanks.
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