Author: martin fierz
Date: 00:50:05 12/10/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 23:22:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >This nonsense about playing a 3-repeat move and hoping the opponent won't >see it is totally ridiculous in the context of alpha/beta searching that we >are all using. you are the one talking nonsense here. if you don't have to claim a draw, why do it? you have obviously never played real chess yourself, or you would understand this very well. even in the context of alpha-beta search this *can* be useful. your opponent might have a bug, or he might have less time than before and play a different move. you can't know with 100% certainty that he will repeat, so why not make him show? granted in 99 of 100 cases, you will gain nothing. but you will not lose anything by trying... cheers martin
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