Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 05:09:43 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 07:36:14, Darse Billings wrote: [snip] >The exact procedure for claiming a draw by 3-fold repetition is >covered in the FIDE rules. If a program follows those steps, then >the operator has no say in the matter. Most programmers have better >things to do than encoding every niggling detail of the FIDE rules >(which were developed for human players). The FIDE rules are for human beings, not for computers. The rules about claiming a draw by 3-fold repetition also contain "...write the move on the scoreboard...", which no computer can do, since they simply don't have a scoreboard. Applying rules for humans directly (ie w/o adapting them) to computers _WILL ALWAYS_ lead to such problems. IMHO, the best thing to do is to play comp-comp games _fully automatic_, which basically means that the FIDE rules (for humans) are 'converted' to the communication protocol. IMHO :) Sargon PS. Please not that I don't think that the decision was wrong. I say it was extremely unlucky but within the rules
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