Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:15:53 12/10/03
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On December 10, 2003 at 03:50:05, martin fierz wrote: >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. No There is a difference between comp-comp games and comp-human games. In comp-comp games I always claim a draw in this situation. >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... It is a waste of time not to claim a draw because I do not assume that my opponent has a stupid bug and I expect the opponent to claim a draw in drawn positions. There are better ways to improve an engine then caring about bugs of opponents that I do not expect to happen. Uri
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