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Topic: "time expired" players
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Having the position evaluated with an engine is not permitted on most chess servers, in official correspondence associations, and on Queen Alice specifically (see "About This Site").
It says:
| You cannot use a computer or computer program to evaluate or analyze a game. |
(The underlining isn't mine, but the bolding is.)
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Too bad about the ban on evaluation. It usually gives a rather dry assessment between -1 (Dead loss) and +1 (certain win) or something similar. Evaluation software does not suggest moves, but could be used as an argument, if it were a built-in feature of the site itself. But only if. I'm not complaining. Just saying Cetero pareo Carthaginem delendam esse on the thirty days autoclaim, suggesting fourteen days instead.
F.
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Well you see, there are clear problems with permitting evaluations.
Consider this: somebody thinks they're dead lost for some reason. Say they began an attack, sacrificed material, now they're down a rook and they think the attack is over. "Oh well", they're thinking, and they're about to resign.
They decide to see the evaluation, and they see something like "+25" (!). "Good Lord", they exclaim in all happiness.
And then they spend some minutes, say 6-7, trying to find the solution because they know there's one.
Or, in an endgame, they're a pawn down and they think, "Good lord I'm lost, this ain't good", and they see "+0.00". Then they figure, "oh, looks like a theoretical draw", so they keep on playing. Just trying to play the best moves.
Obviously, the computer didn't tell them what to play. But it did give them the information they needed to figure out what to play (or to play at all, actually).
That's probably amongst the reasons why this isn't permitted, and this is why I don't think it should be permitted.
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On second thought, I would tend to agree with seigneur there. So maybe a temporary tournament embargo might be the better way to get our tournaments flowing faster.
(And the 14-day autoclaim feature, of course!)
F.
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not an auto-claim feature, a auto-delete will be more right for me
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