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Subject: Re: Shredder wins in Graz after controversy

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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