It is just inherent in chess that if you think you are ahead you should push a pawn before 50 moves are over to keep your winning chances alive. Engines don't get tired and don't get bored and don't care about your feelings, so this is what they do.Frank Quisinsky wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 4:10 pm Sorry, this is nonsense in most cases.
To avoid a draw after 49 moves with a pawn move. When I like to replay the long games, very often is to see ... 0.06 (and 0.07) and the other engines like to give 0.00, no contempt settings adjustable. And all this in clear different piece combinations on board. If adjustable with a contempt parameter in clearly most the move average is 15 moves less. Test it with 8 of the engines contempt = 0 is possible, exactly it's 14.7 moves less. Easy statistic!
The reality is that engines like CSTal or Wasp forced a clearly draw very intelligent (sensational move-average with 83 moves) and others awoid a draw with "brute-force". With the final result that the move-average of games goes clearly over 100 moves ... very easy to see in all the games. For nothing if I am searching the 1:0 end-games in database.
Latest TCEC has 379 moves draw
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Many people hate long draws. I don't. Unless they are buggy, I think they are beautiful. If you strip off the analysis and just play through them, they can be really quite exciting. I think it is really quite a different experience than playing through them with the analysis attached.
I guess nobody wants a "sister-kisser" because they don't show us who is better. But maybe that's the answer. The engines are equal.
I guess nobody wants a "sister-kisser" because they don't show us who is better. But maybe that's the answer. The engines are equal.
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