preventing early draw

[Uri Blass]

I can see in CEGT some early draw like the following game.

probably the position is a draw but I think that it is not good to let the interface decide about it.

I wonder if printing evaluation of 0.01 instead of 0.00 for draw can prevent the fritz gui to adjudicate game as draw without justice when the sides can still blunder.

If it is the case maybe it is better if programmers tell their program never to print 0.00 evaluations.

[Event "CEGT 40/40, 2GHz"]
[Site "CEGT"]
[Date "2005.11.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pseudo 0.7c"]
[Black "Movei 00.8.332"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E01"]
[PlyCount "98"]

1. c4 c5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. Nf3 d5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bc5
8. Bc3 O-O 9. Nd2 Na6 10. N4b3 Bb4 11. Bxb4 Nxb4 12. O-O Bd7 13. a3 Nc6 14.
Nc5 Qe7 15. Rc1 Qxc5 16. cxd5 Qb5 17. dxc6 Bxc6 18. Bxc6 bxc6 19. Nc4 Rfd8
20. Qc2 Qh5 21. Rfd1 Rab8 22. f3 Qc5+ 23. Kh1 Qb5 24. e4 Ne8 25. Qc3 a6 26.
Rd2 f6 27. Rcd1 Rxd2 28. Rxd2 a5 29. Rd7 a4 30. Qc2 c5 31. Qd3 Qa6 32. Kg1
Rb3 33. Qc2 Rb8 34. Kg2 Rb3 35. Rd8 Kf7 36. Kg1 Ke7 37. Qd1 Rb7 38. Rxe8+
Kxe8 39. Nd6+ Kf8 40. Nxb7 Qxb7 41. Qxa4 Qxb2 42. Qa8+ Kf7 43. Qa7+ Kg6 44.
Qxc5 Qa1+ 45. Kf2 Qh1 46. Ke2 Qxh2+ 47. Qf2 Qh1 48. Qe1 Qg2+ 49. Ke3 Qc2
1/2-1/2

[Heinz van Kempen]

Hi Uri ,

yes, this is another miserable thing in ChessBase GUI?s.

Just let me tell that we had a vote in our discussion group if to remove the early draws with less than 20 moves from our database for rating calculation.

There was an equal number of votes (yes or no), so nothing was changed.

One comment here from my side given before the vote:

just checked that the amount of draws with less than 20 moves is 204 games. This are less than 0.4 per cent out of a database of almost 52000 games. In other words 4 games out of 1000.

But...Fruit versions are involved here with 39 games! Fritz versions including Deep Fritz with 13 games.

Best Regards
Heinz