how to turn off resignation offers?

mohishunder · Post by **mohishunder** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:22 am

How can I turn off Hiarcs' ability to offer to resign? (Seems like a bad feature in principle - it offers to resign in situations where the opponent may have no idea how to win, like the B+N v K ending.)

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:09 pm

A lot of people requested a resign feature and draw offers, you can refuse the resignation and ask to play on.

At present there is no option to turn off resignations.

I will adjust the resignation code for v1.8 though to cater for these harder endings depending on the rating of the opponent.

mohishunder · Post by **mohishunder** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:02 pm

Mark Uniacke wrote: I will adjust the resignation code for v1.8 though to cater for these harder endings depending on the rating of the opponent.

Thanks. This reminds me of a famous game from the mid 80s, where Belle (or Cray Blitz?) dumped a rook for "no reason" ... it was avoiding a possible mating tactic that the humans had completely missed.

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:35 pm

Good memory, yes that was the game Duchess-Kaissa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaissa

I think an ex human World Champion who was present missed whites threat and the Kaissa team spent the night debugging only to find white had a threat which forced the rook sac to avoid mate, although there is doubt that white would of seen it.

martinus · Post by **martinus** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:54 pm

Computers never do bluff or cheating, they are the definition of honesty.